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Longnose sawshark
Species of shark / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The longnose sawshark (Pristiophorus cirratus) or common sawshark, is a sawshark of the family Pristiophoridae.
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Longnose sawshark | |
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Pristiophorus cirratus, from the Sketchbook of fishes by William Buelow Gould, 1832 | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Chondrichthyes |
Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
Subdivision: | Selachimorpha |
Order: | Pristiophoriformes |
Family: | Pristiophoridae |
Genus: | Pristiophorus |
Species: | P. cirratus |
Binomial name | |
Pristiophorus cirratus (Latham, 1794) | |
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Range of longnose sawshark (in blue) |
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