Anoxypristis

Anoxypristis cuspidata

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Rhinopristiformes

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Classis: Chondrichthyes Subclassis: Elasmobranchii Infraclassis: Euselachii Division/Cohort: Neoselachii Subdivision/Subcohort: Batoidea Superordo: Batomorphii Ordo: Rhinopristiformes

Familia: Pristidae
Genus: Anoxypristis
Species: Anoxypristis cuspidata

Name

Anoxypristis White & Moy-Thomas, 1941

Type species: Pristis cuspidatus Latham, 1794

Etymology: oxys (= sharp); pristis (= saw), referring to blade-like teeth of saw-like rostrum; the prefix an- (= not), was added to avoid homonymny. (From The ETYFish project)

Synonyms

• Oxypristis Hoffman, 1912

References

• Last, P.R., Séret, B. & Naylor, G.J.P. 2016. A new species of guitarfish, Rhinobatos borneensis sp. nov. with a redefinition of the family-level classification in the order Rhinopristiformes (Chondrichthyes: Batoidea). Zootaxa 4117(4): 451–475. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4117.4.1. Reference page. 
• White, E.I. & Moy-Thomas, J.A. 1941. Notes on the nomenclature of fossil fishes. III. Homonyms M-Z. Annales and Magazine of Natural History 7: 395-400. Reference page. 

Links

• Anoxypristis and its species (including synonyms) in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2024. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.
• Anoxypristis species list in FishBase,
  Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.

Vernacular names

English: Knifetooth sawfish, Pointed sawfish
ไทย: ปลาฉนากจะงอยปากแคบ