88 LIST OF FISH. 



A long barbel on the under surface of the snout. Mouth transverse. 

 Teeth short prickles on a roundish hase, resembling the teeth of 

 the male rays, pavement-like. The first hack-fin between the breast- 

 fin and belly-fins. A keel on the side of the snout. The fourth and 

 fifth gill-openings approximated to each other. 



Pristidophorus, Mull, k Henle, Mag. Nat. Hist. ii. 1838. Plagiost. 



98. 

 Scymni, part, Mull. $r Henle, Plag. 91. 

 Pristis, sp., Lath. Linn. Trans, ii. 282. Cuv. Reg. An. 2 ed. 



ii. 394. 



1. Pristiophorus cirratus. Tentaculated Saw-fish. 



Pristiophorus cirratus, Mull, fy Henle, Plag. 98. 



Squalus tentaculatus, Shaw, Nat. Misc. 630. 



Pristis cirratus, Lath. Linn. Trans, ii. t. 26, f. 5, t. 27. 



Squalus anisodon, Lacep. iv. 679. Cuv. Reg. An. 2 ed. ii. 395. 



Hab. — Australasian Seas, Japan. 



a. In spirits. Japan. From Mr. Frank's collection. 



b — d. Stuffed. Van Diemen's Land. Presented by R. Gunn, Esq. 



e. Stuffed. 



/. Rostrum. New Holland. Presented by General Hardwicke. 



a. Rostrum. 



2. PRISTIS. 



The teeth of the saw in all respects alike, flat and cutting, pretty 

 straight, directed outwards ; they begin just hefore the nostrils. 

 Nostrils far hefore the mouth. A long and three-cornered flap on 

 the upper border: on the under horder merely a ledge-like flap. 

 Corner cartilages of the moulh wanting. Mouth cross and straight. 

 Velum on the upper-jaw, with a straight edge. Teeth flat, pave- 

 ment-like. The upper eyelid without projection. Spout-holes 

 large, divided from the eyes by a broad bridge. First back-fin 

 some way above the belly-fins. Both back-fins equally large. The 

 tail-fin short, with or without an uuder lobe. 



Pristis, Lath. Linn. Trans, ii. 282. Cuv. Reg. An. 2 ed. ii. 394. 



Mull. V Henle, Mag. Nat. Hist. ii. 89, 1838, Plagiost. 105. 

 Pristobatus, Blainv. Bull. Soc. Phil. 121. 



