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Order H. BATOIDEI. Rays 

 Suborder SARCURA. Thick-tailed rays 

 Family 22. PRISTID^. Sawfishes 



Genus 52. PRISTIS Linck. 



Pristis Klein, Xeuer Schauplatz, VII, 1779, 403; non-binominal. 



Pristis Linck, Mag. Neueste Physik und Naturgeschichte, 1790, 31 



(Squalus pristis L.). 

 Pristis Latham, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond., II, 1794,276 (Squalus pristis L.). 



94. Pristis pectinatus Latham, Common sawfish; Pez sierra. 



Tropical Atlantic, north to West Indies and Florida; occasionally at Cape 



May and Grassy Sound. 

 Pristis pectinatus Latham, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond., II, 1794, 27S, "in 



the ocean." 

 Pristis granulosa Bloch and Schneider, Syst. Ichth , ISOl, 352, Habana; 



after Parra. 

 Pristis mississippiensis Rafinesque, Ichth. Ohiensis, 1820, 86, lower 



Mississippi. 

 Pristis megalodon Dumeril, Elasmobranchs, 1870, 476, pi. 9, Cayenne. 

 Pristis acutirostris Dumeril, loc. cit., 479, Martinique. 

 Pristis occa Dumeril, loc. cit., 479, locality unknown. 



95. Pristis zephyreus '^ Jordan and Starks. Pez de espada. 



Tropical seas entering rivers, north to Mazatlan on the Pacific coast. 

 Pristis zephyreus Jordan and Starks, Fishes of Sinaloa, in Proc. Calif. 



Acad. Sci., V, 1895, 383, Mazatlan, Mexico; regarded by Garman as 



inseparable from Pristis microdon Latham. 



Family 23. RHINOBATID.a;. Guitarfishes 



Genus 53. RHINOBATOS Linck. Guitarfishes. 



Rhinobatus Klein, Xeuer Schauplatz, II, 1776, 593 (Rhinobatos seif = 

 Squatina raja; non-ljinominal). 



Rhinobatos Linck, Magazin Neuestes, 1790, 32; type not specified. 



Rhinobatus Bloch and Schneider, Syst. Ichth., ISOl, 353 {Rhinobatus 

 rhinobatus). 



Syrrhina Mullerand Henle, Plagiostomen, 1838, 113 (Rhinobatus columna = 

 Rhinobatos rhinobatus) . 



Glaucostegus Bonaparte, Catalogo Metodico, 1846, 14 (Rhinobatus rhino- 

 batus). 



96. Rhinobatos horkeli (Muller and Henle). 



Brazil north to Windward Islands; St. Eustatius. 



Rhinobatus horkeli Muller and Henle, Plagiostomen, 1838, 122, pi. 41. 



97. Bhinobatos lentiginosus (Garman). Guitarro. 



Atlantic from Charleston, S. C, to Yucatan. 



Rhinobatus lentiginosus Garman, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., VI, 1880, 168, 

 coast of Florida. 



98. Bhinobatos percellens (Walbaura). Fiddlerfish; Puraque. 



West Indies to Jamaica and southern Brazil. 



Raja percellens Walbaum, Artcdi Pise, 1792, 525, Brazil; after Puraque 



Marcgrave. 

 Rhinobatus eleclricus Bloch and Schneider, Syst. Ichtli., 1801, 356, Brazil. 

 Rhinobatus undulatus Olfers, Torpedo, 18.31, 22, Brazil. 

 Rhinobatus glaucostictus Olfers, loc. cit., 1831, 22, Brazil. 

 Rhinobatus mnrcgravii Henle, Ueber Narcine, 1834, 34, Brazil. 



99. Bhinobatos stellio (Jordan and Rutter). 



West Indies. 



Rhinobatus stellio Jordan and Rutter, Proc, Acad. Nat. Sci. Pliila., 

 XLIX, 1897, 91, Kingston, Jamaica. 



•* The .'Vfrican species, P. perroUeti Valenciennes, probably does not occur in America. 



