SAW-SNOUTED SHARK. 35/ 



the coasts, and feeding on flat-fish, &c. and is some- 

 times observed in small shoals. It produces twelve 

 or thirteen young at a birth. 



With serrated snout, 



SAW-SNOUTED SHARK. ' 



Squalus Pristis. S. rostro ensiformi osseo piano, utrinque dentato^ 



dentihus cequalihus. 

 Shark with sword- shaped bony snout denticulated on both 



sides with equal teeth. 

 Squalus Pristis. S. pinna ani nulla, rostro ensiformi osseo piano 



utrinque dent at o. Lin. Syst. Nat, 

 Serra. PUn, hist. mund. I. 9. c. 2. 

 Pristis s. Serra, llond. Gesn, Aldr, Will. SfC, 



The Saw-Fish is a large species of Shark, grow- 

 ing to the length of fifteen feet or more : the head 

 is slightly flattened at the top, and is produced in 

 front into a very long, flat, strait, and slightly 

 tapering bony snout, covered, like the rest of the 

 animal, by minute scales : along the edges project 

 a great number of very strong, large, slightly flat- 

 tened, and very sharp-pointed tooth-like processes ; 

 the mouth, as in other Sharks, is placed beneath, 

 and is furnished on the edges of the jaws with 

 several rows of small and somewhat blunt teeth, 

 paving the lips, as in some of the Rays. The habit 

 of the fish is rather slender; the body convex above, 

 and somewhat flattened beneath : the dorsal fins 

 placed as in the SquatusAcanthias and several others : 

 the ventral situated nearly beneath the first dorsal j. 



