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Sawfish Selected References

Adams, W. F. and Wilson, C. R. The status of the smalltooth sawfish, Pristis pectinata Latham 1794 (Rajiformes: Pristidae) in the United States. Unpublished manuscript. MS. Wilmington, N.C, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

Baughman, J. L. 1943. Notes on sawfish Pristis perotteti Muller and Henle, not previously reported from the waters of the United States. Copeia 1943: 43-48.

Bigelow, H. B. and W. C. Schroeder. 1953. Sawfishes, guitarfishes, skates and rays. Fishes of The Western North Atlantic. Mem. Sears Found. Mar. Res.1: 1-514.

Boeseman, M. 1956. Fresh-water sawfishes and sharks in Netherlands New Guinea. Science (Wash.) 123: 222-223. Breder, C. M. 1952. On the utility of the saw of the sawfish. Copeia 1952: 90-91.

Case, G. R. 1965. An occurrence of the sawfish Onchopristis dunklei in the Upper Cretaceous of Minnesota . J. Minn. Acad. Sci. 32: 183.

Charvet-Almeida, P. 2002. Sawfish trade in the north of Brazil. Shark News: Newsletter of the IUCN Shark Specialist Group 14: 9.

Cook, S. F. and Oetinger, M. Proposal in support of listing sawfishes (F. Pristidae) at the 10th regular conference of the parties to CITES. 96.

Davies, D. H. 1963. The story of Sally the sawfish. South African Association for Marine Biological Research Bulletin 4: 10-13.

Deynat, P.P. 2005. New data on the systematics and interrelationships of sawfishes (Elasmobranchii, Batoidea, Pristiformes). Journal of Fish Biology 66 (5):1447-1458.

Fordham, S. V. and Mairs, S. Petition to list North American populations of sawfish (Pristis pectinata and Pristis perotteti) as endangered persuant to the Endangered Species Act of 1973, 16 U.S.C. §1533. 99. Washington D.C., Center for Marine Conservation.

Fowler, S. 1998. Recent sawfish records. Shark News: Newsletter of the IUCN Shark Specialist Group12: 4.

Heilner, V. C. 1917. Harpooning sawfish in the Florida Keys. Field and Stream 408-410.

Henningsen, A. D., Whitaker, B. R., and Walker, I. D. 2005. Protrusion of the valvular intestine in captive smalltooth sawfish and comments on pristid gastrointestinal anatomy and intestinal valve types. J. Aquat. Anim. Health 17: 289-295.

Hussakof, L. 1912. Note on an embryo of Pristis cuspidatus. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. N. Y. 31: 327-330.

Ishihara, H. 2005. Sawfishes in Mali. Report of the Japanese Society for Elasmobranch Studies 41: 29-53.

Ishihara, H., Honma, K., Hatooka, K., and Taniuchi, T. Comments on the record of a sawfish in the Aragusuku Island, Japan. Rep. Japan. Soc. Elasmobranch Stud. 97. Japanese Soc. for Elasmobranch Studies.

Ishihara, H., Taniuchi, T., Sano, M., and Last, P. Record of Pristis clavata Garman from the Pentecost River, Western Australia, with brief notes on its osmoregulation, and comments on the systematics of the Pristidae. Shimizu, M. and Taniuchi, T. Studies on elasmobranchs collected from seven river systems in northern Australia and Papua New Guinea. 91. Tokyo, Univ. Mus., Univ. Tokyo.

Ishihara, H., Taniuchi, T., and Shimizu, M. Sexual dimorphism in number of rostral teeth in the sawfish, Pristis microdon collected from Australia and Papua New Guinea. Shimizu, M. and Taniuchi, T. Studies on elasmobranchs collected from seven river systems in northern Australia and Papua New Guinea. 91. Tokyo, Univ. Mus., Univ. Tokyo.

McDavitt, M. T. 2002. Cipactli's sword, Tlaltecuhtli's teeth: deciphering the sawfish & shark offerings in the Aztec Great Temple. Shark News: Newsletter of the IUCN Shark Specialist Group 14: 6-7.

McDavitt, M. T. 2002. Lake Nicaragua revisited: conversations with a former sawfish fisherman. Shark News: Newsletter of the IUCN Shark Specialist Group 14: 5.

McDavitt, M. T. 2002. Sawfishes in the indigenous art of Panama. Shark News: Newsletter of the IUCN Shark Specialist Group 14: 4.

McNulty, C. L. and Slaughter, B. H. 1962. A new sawfish from the Woodbine Formation (Cretaceous) of Texas. Copeia 1962: 775-777.

McNulty, C. L. and Slaughter, B. H. 1964. Rostral teeth of Ischyriza mira Leidy from northeast Texas. Tex. J. Sci. 16: 107-112.

Menezes, R. S. 1981. Ocorrencia do peixe-serra, Pristis pectinatus Latham, 1794, no litoral do Estado do Cear , Brasil (Pisces: Pristidae). Arq. Cien. Mar, Fortaleza 21 : 77-78.

Mizue, K. and Hara, M. The rectal gland of freshwater sawfish, Pristis microdon, and bull shark, Carcharhinus leucas, collected from the Daly and Sepik River. Shimizu, M. and Taniuchi, T. Studies on elasmobranchs collected from seven river systems in northern Australia and Papua New Guinea. 91. Tokyo, Univ. Mus., Univ. Tokyo.

Ogawa, K. Ectoparasites of sawfish, Pristis microdon, caught in freshwaters of Australia and Papua New Guinea. Shimizu, M. and Taniuchi, T. Studies on elasmobranchs collected from seven river systems in northern Australia and Papua New Guinea. 91. Tokyo, Univ. Mus., Univ. Tokyo.

Peverell, S. C. 2005. Distribution of sawfishes (Pristidae) in the Queensland Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia, with notes on sawfish ecology. Environ. Biol. Fishes 73: 391-402.

Poulakis, G. R. and J. C. Seitz. 2004. Recent occurrence of the smalltooth sawfish, Pristis pectinata (Elasmobranchiomorphi: Pristidae), in Florida Bay and the Florida Keys, with comments on sawfish ecology. Florida Scient. 67:27-35.

Schwartz, F. J. 2003. Bilateral asymmetry in the rostrum of the smalltooth sawfish, Pristis pectinata (Pristiformes: family Pristidae). Journal of the North Carolina Academy of Science 119: 41-47.

Seitz, J. C. and G. R. Poulakis. 2002. Recent occurrence of sawfishes (Elasmobranchiomorphi: Pristidae) along the southwest coast of Florida (USA). Florida Scient. 65:256-266.

Shields, S. A. 1879. A large sawfish. Am. Nat. 13: 262.

Simpfendorfer, C. A. and Wiley, T. R. 2006. National smalltooth sawfish encounter database. Sarasota, Florida, Mote Marine Laboratory.

Simpfendorfer, C. A. 2006. Movement and habitat use of smalltooth sawfish. Sarasota, Florida, Mote Marine Laboratory.

Simpfendorfer C.A. 2000 Predicting Population Recovery Rates for Endangered Western Atlantic Sawfishes Using Demographic Analysis, Environmental Biology of Fishes. 58(4)371 - 377.

Slaughter, B. H. and Springer, S. 1968. Replacement of rostral teeth in sawfishes and sawsharks. Copeia 1968: 499-506.

Southwell, T. 1910. A descriptive note on the capture of a large saw-fish (Pristis cuspidatus) containing intra-uterine embryos. Spolia Zeylan. 6: 137-139 + 1 pl.

Thorburn, D. C. and D. L. Morgan. 2005. Threatened fishes of the world: Pristis microdon Latham 1974 (Pristidae). Env. Biol. Fish. 72:465-466.

Thorburn, D., Morgan, D., and Gill, H. 2004. Biology and cultural significance of the freshwater sawfish (Pristis microdon) in the Fitzroy River Kimberley, Western Australia. Freshwater Fish Group at the Centre for Fish & Fisheries Research 57 pp.

Thorson, T.B. 1982a. Life history implications of a tagging study of the largetooth sawfish, Pristis perotteti, in the Lake Nicaragua-Rio San Juan system. Environmental Biology of Fishes 7(3):207-228.

Thorson, T.B. 1982b. The impact of commercial exploitation on sawfish and shark populations in Lake Nicaragua. Fisheries 7(2):2-10.

Thorson, T. B. 1978. Marine fish in a fresh-water lake. Explorers J. Sept.: 114-119.

Thorson, T.B. 1976b. Observations on the reproduction of the sawfish, Pristis perotteti, in Lake Nicaragua, with recommendations for its conservation. In: T.B. Thorson, ed. Investigations of the Ichthyofauna of Nicaraguan Lakes. University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln: pp. 641-650.

Thorson, T.B. 1974. Occurrence of the sawfish, Pristis perotteti, in the Amazon River, with notes on P. pectinatus. Copeia (2): 560-564.

Thorson, T.B. 1973. Sexual dimorphism in number of rostral teeth of the sawfish, Pristis perotteti Muller and Henle, 1841. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 102(3): 612-614.

Thorson, T.B., C.M. Cowan, and D.E. Watson. 1966. Sharks and sawfish in the Lake Izabal-Rio Dulce system, Guatemala. Copeia (3):620-622.

United States National Marine Fisheries Service. 2003. Endangered and threatened species; final endangered status for a distinct population segment of smalltooth sawfish (Pristis pectinata) in the United States. Federal Register 68:15674-15680.

Wahlquist, H. 1966. A field key to the batoid fishes (sawfishes, guitarfishes, skates and rays) of Florida and adjacent waters. Technical Series No. 50, Florida Board of Conservation, St. Petersburg, FL. 20 pp.

U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service. Sea turtle and sawfish expanded take estimates in the shark bottom longline fishery. 2003. Silver Spring,MD, U.S. Natl. Mar. Fish. Serv., Southeast Fish. Sci. Center.

Uyeno, T. and Hasegawa, Y. 1986. A new Cretaceous ganopristoid sawfish of the genus Ischyrhiza from Japan . Bull. Natl. Sci. Mus. (Jpn.) 12: 67-72.

Whitley, G. P. 1945. Leichhardt's sawfish. Aust. J. Zool. 11: 43-45.