Largetooth sawfish

Description

The largetooth sawfish (Pristis pristis,syn.P.microdon and P.perotteti) is a species of sawfish,family Pristidae.It is found worldwide in tropical and subtropical coastal regions,but also enters freshwater.It has declined drastically and is considered critically endangered. A range of English names have been used for the species,or populations now part of the species,including common sawfish (despite it being far from common today),wide sawfish,freshwater sawfish,river sawfish (other sawfish species also occur in freshwater and rivers),Leichhardt's sawfish and northern sawfish