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Florida Museum of Natural History Ichthyology Department
Bigelow and Schroeder (1948) FNWA Dentition Ten to twelve rows of teeth are maintained in both jaws of the smalltooth sawfish. The upper and lower jaws have approximately ... Habits The smalltooth sawfish swings its saw from side to side, impaling prey fishes on the rostral teeth. The sawfish then scrapes the captured prey off against the bottom substrate and consumes its ...
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Florida Museum of Natural History Ichthyology Department
Biology Large green sawfish rostrum measuring 1.6 m (5.4 ft) in rostral length. Photo Matthew McDavitt Distinctive Features All sawfishes are highly modified and elongate rays having ... its body being dorso-laterally compressed, its ventrally located gills (not laterally), its similarly-sized rostral teeth, its large size, and its preference for shallow coastal habitats. Due to its very ...
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P. perotteti), has relatively broad-based, strongly tapered and massive saws, with fewer (under 22) large teeth. P. microdon may not be distinct from the largetooth sawfish P. perotteti, which occurs in the Americas ... over the entire length of the saw on each side; the posterior margin of the slender rostral teeth is grooved. It has broad nostrils with large nasal flaps, dorsal fins are high and ...
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Loridae : lorises, slow lorises, pottos and angwantibos
Loridae. Here, we follow current practise and record them as separate. Lorids have strongly constructed skulls with well-defined temporal ridges. The braincase is rounded and the anterior (rostral) parts of the skull reduced. Their orbits are directed forward. Postorbital processes are present and wide, and the zygomatic arches are broad. The bullae are only moderately inflated, and the ...
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