Pristis pectinata Latham 1794
Creators: name: Faria, Vicente V.
name: Mcdavitt, Matthew T.
name: Charvet, Patricia
name: Wiley, Tonya R.
name: Simpfendorfer, Colin A.
name: Naylor, Gavin J. P.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Elasmobranchii
Rhinopristiformes
Pristidae
Pristis
Pristis pectinata

description: PRISTIS PECTINATA LATHAM, 1794   FMNH 9367, isolated rostrum (mounted), Spring 1909, Florida, USA; FMNH 51264, isolated rostrum, Caribbean Sea, Belize; FMNH 51265, isolated rostrum, unknown locality; FMNH 10923, isolated  
rostrum (and cast), 8/15/1924, Gulf of Mexico, Port Isabel, Laguna Madre, Texas, USA; FMNH 10924, jaws (and cast), 9/11/1924, Gulf of Mexico, Port Isabel, Laguna Madre, Texas, USA; FMNH 51205, jaw, unknown locality; FMNH 36628, dry skin and wet fins of an adult female, before 1930, Caribbean Sea, Key West, Florida, USA; FMNH 51186, skin, 1924, Gulf of Mexico, Port Isabel, Texas, USA; FMNH 1939, juvenile, 1/17/1896, Indian River, Cocoa, Florida, USA; FMNH 76391, female, 6/22/1910, Amazon River, Pará, Brazil; MCZ -1220, isolated rostrum, female, 8/24/1834, Bay of Pascagoula, Mississippi, USA; MCZ -1214, isolated rostrum, 1793?, unknown locality; MCZ 89872, isolated rostrum, 2/1918, Caribbean Sea, Key West, Monroe County, Florida, USA; MCZ 153653, isolated rostrum, unknown locality; MCZ 153664, isolated rostrum, unknown locality; MCZ 153665, isolated rostrum, unknown locality; MCZ 163850, isolated rostrum, unknown locality; MCZ -105, female (664 mm TL), 4/1853, Gulf of Mexico, Mobile, Alabama, USA; MCZ 36960 (first of five), male (1001 mm TL), Gulf of Mexico, Galveston, Texas, USA; MCZ 36960 (second of five), female (1005 mm TL), Gulf of Mexico, Galveston, Texas, USA; MCZ 36960 (third of five), female (988 mm TL), Gulf of Mexico, Galveston, Texas, USA; MCZ 36960 (fourth of five), male (1012 mm TL), Gulf of Mexico, Galveston, Texas, USA; MCZ 36960 (fifth of five), male (1050 mm TL), Gulf of Mexico, Galveston, Texas, USA; MCZ 36659, male (1337 mm TL), 12/1947, Gulf of Mexico, off Galveston, Texas, USA; AMNH 55572 (first of two), male (454 mm TL), 3/1958, (‘R/V Cape St. Mary’) Guyana; AMNH 55572 (second of two), female (419 mm TL), 3/1958, (‘R/V Cape St. Mary’) Guyana; AMNH 225808, female (713 mm TL), 1/1908, USA; AMNH 44010, female (730 mm TL), unknown locality; AMNH 55558, isolated rostrum, 1834, Caribbean Sea, Key West, Florida, USA; ANSP 17343, isolated rostrum, unknown locality; ANSP 92746, isolated rostrum, before 1960, Essequibo River, Demerara, Guyana; ANSP 17401, isolated rostrum, before 1878, S. West Atlantic; ANSP 153754, juvenile male (824 mm TL), 3/25/61, Caribbean Sea, Long Key (Atlantic side), Monroe County, Florida, USA; YPM 1135, isolated head and rostrum, 1926, Pacific Mexico (questionable, probably collected from the Caribbean Sea during the preliminary samplings of the Pawnee II expedition); YPM 14916, female (734 mm TL), 1926, Pacific Mexico (questionable, possibly collected from the Caribbean Sea during the preliminary samplings of the Pawnee II expedition); YPM 14917, juvenile female (715 mm TL), 1926, Pacific Mexico (questionable, possibly collected from the Caribbean Sea during the preliminary samplings of the Pawnee II expedition); YPM 8625, male (829 mm TL), 1886, Indian River, Florida, USA; YPM 11931, isolated rostrum, before 1913, Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana, USA; YPM 11930, isolated rostrum, 1870, South Carolina, Charleston County, USA; YPM 11929, isolated rostrum, before 1916, Louisiana, USA; YPM 3, isolated rostrum (mounted), unknown locality; YPM 15083, isolated rostrum, unknown locality; TCWC 2082.01, female (1440 mm TL), 01/23/1978, Gulf of Mexico, Corpus Christi Bay, Port Aransas, Texas, USA; TCWC 6565.01, isolated rostrum, 04/10/1949, Gulf of Mexico, Mustang Island, Texas, USA; MNHN 1903-427, isolated rostrum, 1900, French Guiana; MNHN 0000-3484, isolated rostrum, Cayenne, French Guiana; MNHN A-9476, stuffed male (733 mm TL), Caribbean Sea, Antilles; MNHN 2003- 2614, isolated rostrum, 1958, Pointe-Noire, Congo; MNHN 1986-0397, female (741 mm TL), Port-Etienne (Nouadhibou), Mauritania; MNHN 1990-0002, juvenile male (1035 mm TL), 9/1983, Cacheu, Guinea- Bissau; MNHN 0000-1251 (first of two), male (217 mm TL), Gabon; MNHN 0000-1251 (second of two), female (214 mm TL), Gabon; MNHN 0000-9858, stuffed female (3720 mm TL), 1831, Caribbean Sea, Haiti; MNHN 0000-9859, stuffed female (3760 mm TL), unknown locality; MNHN B-549, full body skin, including head and rostrum of a female (758 mm TL), Senegal?; RMNH D2662, stuffed female (714 mm TL), unknown locality; RMNH D3107, isolated rostrum, before 1944, ‘ Paramaribo, Trinidad Island’, Suriname or Trinidad and Tobago?; RMNH D3110, isolated rostrum, unknown locality; RMNH D3105, isolated rostrum, unknown locality; RMNH D3096, isolated rostrum, 9/1963, Tygerbank, Suriname; RMNH D3100, isolated rostrum, 1965, Atlantic; MRAC A4-45-P-9, isolated rostrum, unknown locality; MRAC A4-45-P-17, isolated rostrum, Congo?; MRAC 74240, female (730 mm TL), 1948, Banana Creek, DR Congo; MRAC 1486, female (654 mm TL), 1911, Banana, DR Congo; ZMB 33546, male (370 mm TL), 1/1907, Longji, Cameroon; ZMB 16632, male (342 mm TL), 1/1907, Longji, Cameroon; ZMB 33540, male (351 mm TL), 1/1907, Longji, Cameroon; ZMB 33541, male (331 mm TL), 1/1907, Longji, Cameroon; ZMB 33542, female (339 mm TL), 1/1907, Longji, Cameroon; ZMB 33543, male (335 mm TL), 1/1907, Longji, Cameroon; ZMB 33544, female (348 mm TL), 1/1907, Longji, Cameroon; ZMB 9226, male (641 mm TL), Limbe (‘ Victoria’), northern Congo Basin, Cameroon; ZMB 33549, female (349 mm TL), unknown locality; ZMB 33548, female (355 mm TL), unknown locality; ZMB 4524, male (233 mm TL), North Atlantic; ZMB 16106, isolated rostrum, Luanda, Angola; ZMB 16108, isolated rostrum, Luanda, Angola; ZMB 33574, isolated rostrum, unknown locality; ZMB 33587, full-body skeleton, unknown locality; BMNH 1985.6.21.1, male (404 mm total length), 3/1958, (‘R/V Cape St. Mary’) Guyana; BMNH 1985.6.21.2, female (419 mm total length), 3/1958, (‘R/V Cape St. Mary’) Guyana; BMNH 1985.6.21.3, female (434 mm total length), 3/1958, (‘R/V Cape St. Mary’) Guyana; unknown BMNH, female (723 mm TL), unknown locality; BMNH 1906.8.14.47, male (662 mm TL), Florida, USA; BMNH 1982.9.13.6, isolated rostrum, 1886(?), Guyana; BMNH 1982.9.13.5, isolated rostrum, 1886(?), Guyana; BMNH 1842.12.12.33, stuffed male (7602 mm TL), Caribbean Sea; BMNH 1857.6.13. (175?), stuffed male (650 mm TL), unknown locality; BMNH 2004.11.27.47, stuffed male (700 mm TL), unknown locality; BMNH 1908.7.6.30, stuffed female (750 mm TL), Gulf of Mexico, Pánuco River, Near Tampico, Mexico; BMNH 1848.7.28.40, stuffed (715 mm TL), Mexico (W. Atlantic); BMNH 1876.5. 24.35, stuffed female (4170 mm TL), 3/1876, Caribbean Sea, San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago; BMNH 1945.11.12.1, isolated rostrum, Caribbean Sea, West Indies; uncat. UF, isolated rostrum, 1960s, Caribbean Sea, Tortuguero, Costa Rica; UF 48061/Z 5677, isolated rostrum, 1912, Gulf of Mexico, Anna Maria Sound, Anna Maria Island, Manatee County, Florida, USA; unknown UF (? 80992), isolated rostrum, unknown locality; unknown UF (? 16608 or 80991), isolated rostrum, unknown locality; unknown UF (? 90468), isolated rostrum, unknown locality; unknown UF (? 90379), isolated rostrum, unknown locality; unknown UF (? 90378), isolated rostrum, unknown locality; unknown UF (? 83171), isolated rostrum, unknown locality; uncat. UF (Zooarch), isolated rostrum, unknown locality; USNM 00127141, female (801 mm TL), 7/7/1930, Gulf of Mexico, Quatre Bayou Pass, Louisiana, USA; USNM 00121000, female (866 mm TL), Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Venezuela, Venezuela; USNM 00205192, male (1152 mm TL), Cocoa, Florida, USA; USNM 00030678, male (675 mm TL), 1882, Gulf of Mexico, Pensacola, Florida, USA; USNM 00015453, stuffed male (746 mm TL), 5/1875 or earlier, unknown locality; USNM 00029091, isolated rostrum, summer 1870, Gulf of Mexico, Brazos Santiago Harbor, Texas, USA; USNM 00110149, isolated rostrum, Florida, USA; USNM 00110175, isolated rostrum, ‘ Guanajuato’ (?), Mexico; USNM 00110176, isolated rostrum, unknown locality; USNM 00110177, isolated rostrum, unknown locality; USNM 00110248, isolated rostrum, unknown locality; USNM 00110324, isolated rostrum, 7/1939 or earlier, unknown locality; USNM 00111368, isolated rostrum, 10/1943, ‘ Lake Nicaragua’ (?), Nicaragua; USNM 00111392, isolated rostrum, 1/12/1944, unknown locality; USNM 00232685 (first of three), isolated rostrum, Gulf of Mexico, Tarpon Springs, USA; USNM 00232685 (second of three), isolated rostrum, Gulf of Mexico, Tarpon Springs, USA; USNM 00232685 (third of three), isolated rostrum, Gulf of Mexico, Tarpon Springs, Florida, USA; USNM 00232687, isolated rostrum, unknown locality; USNM 00232968, isolated rostrum, Ft. Macon, North Carolina, USA; USNM 00232969, isolated rostrum, unknown locality; USNM 00260348, isolated rostrum, Cape Romain Lighthouse, South Carolina, USA; USNM 00260349, isolated rostrum, Colombia (Atlantic, inferred); USNM 00260350, isolated rostrum, unknown locality.  
 Additional material   
 Isolated rostra from private collections: 1993 or earlier, unknown locality (N = 1); 1/1997 or earlier, Florida?, USA? (N = 1); 1956, Gulf of Mexico, USA (N = 1); 6/1999 or earlier, unknown locality (N = 1).   
 Photograph of a complete specimen from a public collection: LACM 42016.001, unsexed (4430 mm TL), 3/8/1882, Indian River Inlet, Florida, USA.   
 Photographs of rostra from public collections: IFAN R956, female (4600 mm TL), 7/11/1956, Joal, Senegal; IFAN R 1B, unsexed (3150 mm TL), 3/28/1959, Joal, Senegal; IFAN R969, Casamance, Senegal?; IFAN R973, R962, R975, and two uncatalogued IFAN, unknown locality (N = 5); LACM 39297.002,.003,.004,.005, 006,.008, and.009, Florida, USA (N = 7).   
 Photographs of isolated rostra from private collections: 1940–1950, Gulf of Mexico, Collier County, Florida, USA (N = 1); 2000 or earlier, Florida?, USA? (N = 1).   
 Number of rostral teeth per side data from specimens from public collections: CAS-13512(?), female (723 mm TL), Georgetown, Guyana; LACM 42017.002, Atlantic Ocean; SU 10630, male (690 mm TL), Gulf of Mexico, Florida, USA; SU 14334, male (750 mm TL), 5/1935, Tarpon Bay, Sanibel Island, Lee County, Florida, USA.   
 Number of rostral teeth per side data from Robillard & Séret (2006): 4/1980 and c. 1990, Alcatraz, Republic of Guinea (N = 2); Kamsar, Republic of Guinea (N = 2); 1988, Kamsar, Republic of Guinea (N = 1); Bijagos, Guinea-Bissau (N = 1); c. 1987, Orango, Guinea Bissau (N = 1); Formosa, Guinea-Bissau (N = 1); Bolama, Guinea-Bissau (N = 1); 1977, Kartong, Gambia (N = 1); 1990, Joal, Senegal (N = 1); c. 1975, Kayar, Senegal (N = 1).
description: Published as part of Faria, Vicente V., Mcdavitt, Matthew T., Charvet, Patricia, Wiley, Tonya R., Simpfendorfer, Colin A. & Naylor, Gavin J. P., 2013, Species delineation and global population structure of Critically Endangered sawfishes (Pristidae), pp. 136-164 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 167 (1) on pages 155-157, DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2012.00872.x, http://zenodo.org/record/5292186