| anthropogenic effects on the smalltooth sawfish (pristis pectinata) in the united states. | bycatch mortality in net fisheries was the major reason for the decline of the endangered smalltooth sawfish, pristis pectinata, in the united states. these fisheries have been reduced or eliminated in some states including florida--where most smalltooth sawfish are currently found in the united states. to determine whether other factors are still affecting this species, we obtained non-net fishery entanglement, injury, and mortality data by soliciting information from anyone who may have encoun ... | 2006 | 17034820 |
| resurrection of mycteronastes (monogenoidea: monocotylidae), with description of mycteronastes caalusi n. sp. from olfactory sacs of the smalltooth sawfish, pristis pectinata (pristiformes: pristidae), in the gulf of mexico off florida. | mycteronastes kearn and beverley-burton, 1990 (monogenoidea: monocotylidae: merizocotylinae) was resurrected from subjective synonymy with merizocotyle cerfontaine, 1894 , and its diagnosis was emended to include monocotylids with a haptor lacking a central loculus and having 5 peripheral (2 bilateral pairs and an unpaired anteromedial loculus), 1 interhamular, and 17 marginal loculi. the 3 species of mycteronastes accepted herein are parasitic within the olfactory sacs of rays and sawfishes: my ... | 2017 | 28589784 |