Anoxypristis White & Moy-Thomas, 1941

Ebert, David A., White, William T., Ho, Hsuan-Ching, Last, Peter R., Nakaya, Kazuhiro, Séret, Bernard, Straube, Nicolas, Naylor, Gavin J. P. & De Carvalho, Marcelo R., 2013, An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of Taiwan, Zootaxa 3752 (1), pp. 279-386 : 345

Genus Anoxypristis White & Moy-Thomas, 1941

Knifetooth sawfish / Ễḍé

Anoxypristis White & Moy-Thomas, 1941: 397 . Type by being a replacement name for Oxypristis Hoffman, 1912 , preoccupied by Oxypristis Signoret, 1861 in Hemiptera .

Anoxypristis cuspidata ( Latham, 1794)

Knifetooth sawfish / fiỄḍ

Pristis cuspidatus Latham, 1794: 279 , pl. 26 (fig 3). Neotype: MNHN 0000-1250, juvenile female, 810 mm TL, Malabar , India.

Local synonymy: Pristis cuspidatus: Nakamura, 1936:44 (1 specimen 1191 mm TL); Teng, 1962:186 (TFRI 2546, female 1130 mm TL, Keelung); Chen & Chung, 1971; 2, fig. 1 (THUP 970, 996 mm TL, Keelung); Shen, 1984a: 71, fig.; Chen & Yu, 1986: 155.

Taiwan voucher material: (1 specimen) FRIP 0898 , 486 mm TL, Keelung, 16 Aug 1951 .

Remarks: Very rare, with only three confirmed records. H.-C. Yang (pers. comm.) further confirmed the occurrence of this species from Taiwanese waters based on at least one specimen he examined from the 1950’s. Local fisherman also confirmed that sawfish was collected from southwestern Taiwan occasionally in early time. The Largetooth Sawfish Pristis pristis (Linnaeus) [as P. microdon Latham, 1794 ], Smalltooth Sawfish Pristis pectinata Latham, 1794 , and Green Sawfish Pristis zijsron Bleeker, 1851 , have been listed from the South China Sea (e.g. Chu, 1960; Randall & Lim, 2000) but there are no confirmed records from Taiwan.

Conservation status: Critically Endangered.