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form 2 cutting edges, of which lower more prominent; jaw teeth in 

 70 rows above, 72 rows below, in pavement ; interorbital 5% in head to 

 spiracle. Spiracles oblique, 1 to 1 14 diameters behind orbit, subequal 

 with orbit. 



First dorsal inserted before ventral origin or nearly opposite tips 

 of depressed pectorals, fin length 3i/4 in head to spiracle ; second dor- 

 sal length 3% ; caudal 5i/^ in rest of body, slight subcaudal lobe 2% in 

 caudal length ; pectoral length 2 in head measured to spiracle, width 

 1% its length ; ventral length 4% in head to spiracle. 



Reddish brown above, dull white on abdominal surface. Iris 

 golden, with black edge. Reaches 4,575 mm. (Day; Garman.) 



Zanzibar, Madagascar, Reunion, India, East Indies, Indo-China, 

 Queensland. Also in the tropical Atlantic. Enters tidal water 

 where fresh. 



PRISTIS CUSPIDATUS Latham 



Pristis cuspidatus Latham, Trans. Linn. Soc. London, vol. 2, p. 279, pi. 26, fig. 3 

 (rostrum) 1794 (habitat ?). — Cuviek, Regne animal, vol. 2, p. 131, 1817 

 (reference). — Mtt t^t.tcr and Henle, Syst. Beschr. Plagiostomen, p. 107, 1841 

 (Sumatra). — Gray, List, fish British Museum, p. 90, 1851 (Tenasserim).— 

 Blebker, Verb. Batav. Genootscb. (Plagiost.), vol. 24, p. 55, 1852 (name). — 

 DuMfiEiL, Hist. Nat. Elasmobr., vol. 1, p. 476, 1865 (no locality). — Gtjntheb, 

 Cat. Fishes British Mus., vol. 8, p. 439, 1870 (Pinang, India, East Indies, 

 Tenasserim, Bengal). — Day, Fishes of India, pt. 4, p. 728, pi. 191, fig. 3, 

 1878 (Calicut and Madras). — Ogii^by, Cat. Fishes Australian Mus., vol. 1, 

 p. 14, 1888 (Madras).— Day, Fauna Brit. India, Fishes, vol. 1, p. 87, fig. 15, 

 1889.— Bartlettt, Sarawak Gaz., vol. 26, No. 366, p. 134, 1896 (Santubong 

 and Moratabas). — Johnstone, Fasc. Malayensis, Annandale and Robinson, 

 Zool., pt. 2, p. 302, 1903 (Patani and Jhering coasts).— Duncker, Mitt. 

 Naturhist. Mus. Hamburg, vol. 21, (1903) p. 192, 1904 (Kuala Lamgat).— 

 VoLz, Rev. Suisse, Zool., vol. 12, p. 484, 1904 (Chalipah Bedager; 

 Wampu R.) ; Nat. Tijdschr. Nederland. Indie, vol. 66, p. 2.39, 1907 (Padang 

 and Langhat). — Annandale, Mem. Indian Mus., vol. 2, p. 5, 1909 (off Orissa 

 and Ganges mouth). — Southwell, Spolia Zeylanica, vol. 6, pt. 24, p. 137, 

 1910 (with intrauterine embryos) ; Ceylon Administr. Rep., pp. E42, E44, 

 E48, E49, 1912-13.— Gaeman, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 36, p. 261, 1913 

 (India, Red Sea, East Indies). — Pearson, Ceylon Administr. Rep., p. E23, 

 1914 (Trincomalee) ; p. F13, 191.5-18; pp. F26, F28, 1926.— Fowleb, Journ. 

 Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc, vol. 33, p. 101, 1928 (Bombay).— Pillay, Journ. 

 Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc, vol. 33, p. 352, 1929 (Travancore). — ^Tibant, Service 

 Oc^anogr. Peches Indo-Chine, 6' note, p. 71, 1929 (Cochinchina). — Fowler, 

 Proc 4th (1929) Pacific Sci. Congr., Java, p. 498, 1930 (Indian Ocean) ; 

 Hong Kong Nat., vol. 1, p. 131, fig. 14, 1930 (Indian Ocean). — Chevey, Inst. 

 Oc6anogr. Indochine, 19° note, p. 7, 1932 (Indochina). — Wang, Contrib. 

 Biol. Lab. Sci. Soc China, vol. 9, p. 96, fig. 3, 1933 (Yenting).— Suvatti, 

 Index Fish. Siam, p. 3, 1937 (Gulf of Siam).— Fowler, List Fish. Malaya, 

 p. 11, 1938 (reference). — Giltay, Mem. Mus. Roy. Nat. Hist. Belg., ser. 5, 

 vol. 3, p. 12, 19.33 (Tandjong Priok). 



Pristis cuspiddta Schneider, Syst. Ichth. Bloch, p. 351, 1801 (on Latham). — 

 Van Hasselt, Bull. Sci. Nat. Fc^russac, vol. 2, p. 90, 1824 (Java). — Lloyd, 

 Rec Indian Mus., vol. 1, p. 220, 1907 (Akyab). 



