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Family PRISTIOPHORIDAE. 



PristiophoruSy Miill. & Henle. 



Miill. & Henle, Plagiostomen, 1841 ; Giinth. Cat. Fish, viii, 

 p. 431, 1870. 



Pristiophorus cirratus, Latham. 



Pristis cirratus, Latham, Trans. Linn. Soc. ii, 1794, p. 281, tab. 



26, figs. 5 and 27 ; Bl. Schn. p. 351, pi. 70, fig. 2, 1801 



(cop. Latham). 

 Squalus anisodon, Lacep. Hist. Poiss. iv, p. 680, 1802 (New 



Holland). 

 Squalus tentaculatus, Shaw, Gen. Zool. v, 2, p. 359, 1803, and 



Nat. Misc. p. 630. 

 Pristiophorus cirratus, Miill & Henle, Plag. p. 98, 1841 ; "^ 



Dumeril, Elasmobr. p. 461, 1865 ; Waite, Mem. Austr. 



Mus. iv, 1899, p. 37 (common on coast of New South 



Wales) ; McCulloch, F.LS. " Endeavour," Rep. Comm. 



Australia, pt. i, 1911, p. 9 (New South Wales 15-45 fms. ; 



N. of Goose Isld., Bass Strait). 

 A specimen has been identified by Dr. Boulenger from False 

 Bay. 



Sub-order Batoidei. 



Family PRISTIDAE. 



Pristis, Latham. 



Pristis, Latham, Trans. Linn. Soc. ii, 1794, p. 276 ; Giinth. Cat. 



Fish, viii, p. 436, 1870. 

 Pristohatiis, Blainville, Journ. de Physique, 1816, p. 262 

 Myriosteon, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1864. 



Pristis pectinatus, Latham. 



(Saw-fish.) 



Pristis pedinatus, Latham, Trans. Linn. Soc. 1794, ii, p. 278, 

 pi. 26, fig. 2, rostrum (The ocean) ; Bl. Schn. Syst. Ichth. 

 p. 351, pi. 70, fig. I, 1801 (Havana) ; Risso, Ichth. Nice, 

 p. 22, 1810, and Eur. Merid. iii, p. 141, 1827 ; Blainv. Faun. 

 Franc, p. 51, 1828 ; Miill. & Henle, Plag. p. 109, 1841 ; 

 Owen, Odontogr. pi. 8, fig. i, 1845 ; Gray, Chondropt. 

 p. 90, 185 1 (Atlantic ; West Indies ; Mexico ; Cape Seas ; 

 Calcutta) ; Blkr. Visch. v.d. Kaap, p. 58, Name only, i860 

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