ICHTHYOLOGY. 



PLATE LXXXII. 



PRISTIS TENTACULATUS 

 TENTACULATED SAW-FISH 



Pisces Chondropterigi. 



generic character. 



Snout long, flat, spinous down the edges : spiracles four or five 

 and lateral : body oblong, roundish, covered with a rough coriaceous 

 skin : mouth beneath : nostrils before the mouth, half covered with 

 a membranaceous flap, behind the eyes two oval orifices ; ventral fins 

 approximate, anal fin wanting. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 

 AND 

 SYNONYMS. 



Snout tentaculated, and serrated on each side with short teetli 

 interposed between the longer ones. 



pRiSTis Tentaculatus : rostro utrinque tentaculato, spinoso, 

 spinis longioribus brevioribusque intermedlis. 



Pristis Cirratus : rostro cirrato, spinis longioribus brevioribus- 

 que intermediis. Lath, in Linn. Trans, 2. p. S81 * 



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