Waite — Fishes of South Australia 



Family PRISTIOPHORIDAE. 



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PRISTIOPHORUS Miiller & Henle, 1837 (cirratiis). 



PRISTIOPHORUS CIRRATUS Latham (Saw Shark). 



Prist is cirriifiis Lath., T.L.S., ii. 17!)4, p. 281, ])1. xxvi, %. 5 (saw) and xxvii. 

 I'ristiophorus cirratus Miill. & lieiile, Arch. f. Naturg., iii, 1837, and Plagiost., 



1838, p. 98. 



Tlie little saw sharks, of which we liavr two species, are not to l)e confounded 

 witli the sawfishes (I'tist s), tlie hitter I)eing rays, not sharks, and not, so far, 

 recorded from South Australia. 



PRISTIOPHORUS NUDIPINNIS Gimther (Saw Shark). 



Prist ophonis ntidipiitiiis (Jiinth., Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., viii, 1870, p. 432; McCoy, 

 Prod. Zool. A'ict., dec. vi, 1881, pi. Ivi, fio-. 2; McCull., Endeavour Res., i, 

 Pill, p. 10, pi. i, fig. 2. 



Fig. ;-).!. Pristiopliorus nuflipiiuiin. 



The teeth in the saw are not developed at the expense of the true teeth, 

 wliich arm the mouth. The young are born alive, and until l)irth th* saw teeth 

 ai-e folded against the blade and so prevent injury to the parent. 



Family SQUATINIDAE. 



SQUATINA Dumeril, 1806 (squatina). 



SQUATINA AUSTRALIS Regan (Angel Shark). 



RhiiKi sqiKitina McCoy, Proil. Zool. \u-\., dec iv, 187!), pi. xxxiv (not Linn.). 



Sguatina squatina Waite, Mem. Aust. Mus., iv, 1899, p. 37. 



Squatina australis Regan, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (ser. 7), xviii, 1906, p. 438, 



