Anoxypristis cuspidata, (LATHAM, 1794)

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), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 167 (1), pp. 136-164 : 159-160

ANOXYPRISTIS CUSPIDATA ( LATHAM, 1794)

MNHN 0000-1250 (neotype), female (799 mm TL), Malabar , India ; FMNH 13267 , isolated rostrum, Borneo; FMNH 13268 , isolated rostrum, Borneo; FMNH 59931 , isolated rostrum, unknown locality; FMNH 59933 , isolated rostrum, unknown locality; FMNH 91306 , female (285 mm TL), 7/27/1976, Trivandrum , Kerala, India ; MCZ 669 (first of two), isolated rostrum, unknown locality; MCZ 669 (second of two), isolated rostrum, unknown locality; MCZ 153654 , isolated rostrum, unknown locality; AMNH 44009 , female (1206 mm TL), 1931, Jakarta, Java Island , Indonesia ; ANSP 51299 , male (545 mm TL), Bombay, India ; YPM 11731, isolated rostrum, China ; YPM 11947, isolated rostrum, 1898 or before, unknown locality; MNHN 1986-1076 , isolated rostrum, unknown locality; MNHN 1986-1075 , isolated rostrum, unknown locality; MNHN 1986-1078 , isolated rostrum, Indian Ocean; MNHN 0000-3459, dry female (801 mm TL), Indian Ocean ; MNHN 0000- 1234 (first of two), male (654 mm TL), Coromandel, Pondicherry, India ; MNHN 0000-1234 (second of two), juvenile male (657 mm TL), Coromandel , Pondicherry, India ; MNHN 0000-1236, male (646 mm TL), Malabar , India ; MNHN A-7909, female (705 mm TL), Malabar , India ; RMNH 7420 (first of two), juvenile male (782 mm TL), before 1879, Java Sea , Jakarta or Semarang, Indonesia ; RMNH 7420 (second of two), female (716 mm TL), before 1879, Java Sea , Jakarta or Semarang, Indonesia ; RMNH 8003 , male (717 mm TL), 1852/1854, Indonesia (‘O. I. Arch’ ) ; RMNH 4846 , male (645 mm TL), Indonesia (‘ Arch. Ind. ’) ; RMNH D2750, dry female (618 mm TL), unknown locality; RMNH D3062, isolated rostrum, Indonesia; RMNH D3064, isolated rostrum, 3/1955, south of Pulau Yos Sudarso [‘ Frederik (Hendrik) Island’], southern New Guinea, Indonesia ; RMNH D3066, isolated rostrum, 3/1955, south of Pulau Yos Sudarso [‘ Frederik (Hendrik) Island’], southern New Guinea, Indonesia ; RMNH D3067, isolated rostrum, Pulau Yos Sudarso [‘ Frederik (Hendrik) Island’], southern New Guinea, Indonesia ; RMNH D3061, isolated rostrum, unknown locality; RMNH D3068, isolated rostrum, 11/15/1966, unknown locality; RMNH D3063, isolated rostrum, before 1938, unknown locality; RMNH D3065, isolated rostrum, unknown locality; ZMB 4523 , unsexed (555 mm TL), unknown locality; ZMB 32537, isolated rostrum, Calcutta , India ; ZMB 33580, dry, unsexed, unknown locality; ZMB 33581, dry, unsexed, unknown locality; ZMB 33582, dry, unsexed, unknown locality; ZMB 33583, isolated rostrum, unknown locality; ZMB 33584, isolated rostrum, unknown locality; ZMB 32536, isolated rostrum, unknown locality; ZMB 13412, dry, unsexed, unknown locality; ZMB 14688, dry, unsexed, unknown locality; BMNH 1983.1.7.4, male (697 mm TL), ‘ Christmas Island, Australia or Sumatra, Indonesia’; BMNH 1867.11.28.186, female (686 mm TL), 1867, Indonesia ; BMNH 1866.8.14.2, male (655 mm TL), unknown locality; BMNH 1906.10.24.11, female (349 mm TL), Laccadive Sea, Travancore, India ; BMNH 1963.9.26.1, male (1215 mm TL), Persian Gulf; BMNH 1867.4.2.197, isolated rostrum, unknown locality; BMNH 1862.7.18.3, isolated rostrum, unknown locality; BMNH 1862.7. 18.4, isolated rostrum, unknown locality; BMNH 1862.7.18.5, isolated rostrum, unknown locality; BMNH 1862.7.18.6, isolated rostrum, unknown locality; BMNH 1862.7.18.7, isolated rostrum, unknown locality; BMNH 1862.7.18.8, isolated rostrum, unknown locality; BMNH 1862.7.18.9, isolated rostrum, unknown locality; BMNH 1982.9.13.2, isolated rostrum, unknown locality; BMNH 2004.11.27.44, isolated rostrum, unknown locality; BMNH 2004.11. 27.45, isolated rostrum, unknown locality; BMNH 1982.9.13.1, isolated rostrum, Persian Gulf ; BMNH 1849.7.27.28, dry female (1185 mm TL), India ; BMNH 1858.3.17.8, dry female (1225 mm TL), unknown locality; BMNH 1960.4.1.1, dry male (1040 mm TL), unknown locality; BMNH 1850.11. 18.61, dry female (531 mm TL), ‘ India & Borneo’; BMNH 1850.11.18.50, dry (555 mm TL), unknown locality; BMNH 2004.11.27.50, isolated rostrum and head, Bengal , India ; BMNH 1850.11.18.63, dry male (583 mm TL), ‘ India & Borneo’; BMNH 1860.3. 19.1464, dry male (1170 mm TL), E. Indian Ocean; uncat. BMNH, dry female (3280 mm TL), unknown locality; BMNH 1844.3.25.143/2004.11.27.52, isolated rostrum, Tenasserim River , Myanmar (Burma) ; BMNH 1880.1.3.2, isolated rostrum, ‘ Atlantic. ..’ (probably a mistake); BMNH 1982.11.2.2, dry female (2125 mm TL), W. Pacific (‘ East Indies’ ); USNM 00232695 , isolated rostrum, Madras, India ; USNM 00367980 , isolated rostrum, c. 1961–1964, Bay of Bengal , Cox’s Bazar (town), Bangladesh .

Additional material

Isolated rostra from private collections: 11/1998 or earlier, Australia (N = 1); 4/1999 or earlier, Arnhem Land, Australia (N = 2); 10/2000 or earlier, Gulf of Papua, Papua New Guinea (N = 1); unknown date, Bushehr, Iran (N = 1); 1994 or earlier, unknown locality (N = 3); 1999 or earlier, unknown locality (N = 2).

Photograph of isolated rostrum from a private collection: Early 1980s or earlier, unknown locality (N = 1).

Number of rostral teeth per side data from specimens from public collections: AMS I-15557-006, female (557 mm TL), Australia; uncat. CAS (CAS 1975- IX:29), male (528 mm TL), 1975?, Pakistan ; uncat. CAS (CAS 1975-IX:29), female (512 mm TL), 1975?, Pakistan ; uncat. CAS (CAS 1975-IX:29), skeleton of a male (510 mm TL), 1975?, Pakistan ; uncat. CAS (CAS 1975-IX:29), female (518 mm TL), 1975?, Pakistan ; uncat. CAS (GVF 2487), male (770 mm TL), Ko Kut , 5–16 miles east, Trat Province, Thailand ; uncat. CAS (GVF 2487), female (665 mm TL), Ko Kut , 5–16 miles east, Trat Province, Thailand ; uncat. CAS (GVF 2513), male (1660 mm TL), Koh Samui , 1.5– 5 miles offshore, Surat Thani Province, Thailand ; uncat. CAS (GVF 2513), female (1372 mm TL), Koh Samui , 1.5–5 miles offshore, Surat Thani Province, Thailand ; uncat. CAS (GVF 2563), female (1540 mm TL), Koh Samui , 1.5–5 miles offshore, Surat Thani Province, Thailand ; uncat. CAS (GVF 2563), female (1556 mm TL), Koh Samui , 1.5–5 miles offshore, Surat Thani Province, Thailand ; uncat. CAS (GVF 60–109), female (1404 mm TL), Koh Samui , Surat Thani Province, Thailand ; uncat. CAS (GVF 60–134), male (586 mm TL), northern Gulf of Thailand, Thailand ; uncat. CAS (GVF 60–134), female (575 mm TL), northern Gulf of Thailand, Thailand ; uncat. CAS (GVF 60–134), female (561 mm TL), northern Gulf of Thailand, Thailand ; uncat. CAS (GVF 60–134), male (575 mm TL), northern Gulf of Thailand, Thailand ; uncat. CAS (GVF 60–210), female (920 mm TL), Trat Province, Thailand ; uncat. CAS (GVF 60–397), female (515 mm TL), Ko Chang , Trat Province, Thailand ; uncat. CAS (GVF 81), female (1154 mm TL), Thailand; uncat. CAS (GVF 81), male (1008 mm TL), Thailand; uncat. CAS (GVF 81), male (752 mm TL), Thailand; SU 14514, female (610 mm TL), 1/14/1941, Calicut (Kozhikode) , Kerala State, India ; SU 18036, male (692 mm TL), 2/22/1937, South China Sea, Singapore .