Putative extinction of two sawfish species in Mexico and the United States

All species of sawfish are listed by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as endangered or critically endangered. In fact, the smalltooth sawfish Pristis pectinata, and the largetooth sawfish Pristis pristis, have been declared to be regionally and locally extinct from the U...

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Main Authors: Pablo del Monte-Luna, José Luis Castro-Aguirre, Barry W. Brook, José de la Cruz-Agüero, Víctor Hugo Cruz-Escalona
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Ictiologia
Series:Neotropical Ichthyology
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1679-62252009000300020&lng=en&tlng=en