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Ontogenetic depth partitioning by juvenile freshwater sawfish Pristis microdon: Pristidae in a riverine environment
Breaking News: Ontogenetic Depth 2.0! - The Panda's Thumb 2010
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Ontogenetic depth partitioning by juvenile freshwater sawfish Pristis microdon: Pristidae in a riverine environment
Breaking News: Ontogenetic Depth 2.0! - The Panda's Thumb 2010
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Abstract: The freshwater sawfish Pristis microdon is a critically endangered elasmobranch. snip
Breaking News: Ontogenetic Depth 2.0! - The Panda's Thumb 2010
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Abstract: The freshwater sawfish Pristis microdon is a critically endangered elasmobranch.
Breaking News: Ontogenetic Depth 2.0! - The Panda's Thumb 2010
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Ontogenetic depth partitioning by juvenile freshwater sawfish Pristis microdon: Pristidae in a riverine environment
Breaking News: Ontogenetic Depth 2.0! - The Panda's Thumb 2010
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Migrant pelagic include tunnies Thunnus spp., smalltooth sawfish Pristis pectinata guitarfish Rhinobatos spp., and smooth hammerhead shark Sphyrna zygaena.
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SADIE E.P. -- The saw-fish (_Pristis antiquorum_) is most plentiful in tropical seas, although a few species are found in the arctic regions.
Harper's Young People, March 2, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Various
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In this contest Mnes'theus with a ship named _Pristis_, and Clo-an'-thus commanding the _Scylla_ performed wonderful feats of seamanship.
Story of Aeneas Michael Clarke 1880
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As the _Scylla_ was approaching the rock on the home run, the _Pristis_, which had been pressing close behind, shot alongside, and was almost beak to beak with its competitor.
Story of Aeneas Michael Clarke 1880
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I think by sword-fish (_Xiphias_), which is also a large but not so very sanguinary a fish, they mean the saw-fish (_Pristis_), which is allied to the sharks, and which attacks the largest whales.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870
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