Pristis


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For the smalltooth sawfish (Pristis pectinata), which is listed as endangered under the U.S.
pristis (spiny rosette forbs, Apiaceae) were not totally consumed by fire, with their basis remaining and also re-sprouting very quickly after fire (more details in Fidelis et al., 2008).
viridis specimens on a gill net entangled on the bill of a sawfish, Pristis pectinata Latham 1794 (Table 2), but the sawfish could have traveled a considerable distance in a short time.
The 3.6 metre female green sawfish, Pristis zijsro, was fitted with ah acoustic tag in May after being caught by a commercial gillnet fisherman Peter Tonon, near Port Musgrave, 100 km north of Weipa in Queensland.
Smalltooth Sawfish (Pristis pectinata) On April 1, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration-Fisheries, an agency in the U.S.
Nonetheless, the occurrence of predominantly nearshore warmwater sharks and non-shark taxa (unreported fossils in the GCVP collections), such as sawfishes (Pristis sp.), barracudas (Sphyraena sp.), boxfishes (Ostraciidae), crocodiles, trionichid turtles, emydid-like turtles, sea turtles, palaeopheid snakes, and a moderately large brontotherid, all suggest that warm climatic conditions persisted year round.
this holy womman Sara at the day of dom schal dampnen the pristis of the Newe Testament that givis heem to pleyes, reversen hir holy maners aprovyd by God and al holiy chirche; therfore sore aughten pristis to be aschamyd that reversen this gode holy womman and the precious body of Crist that they treytyn in ther hondis, the whiche body never gaf him to pley but to alle siche thing as is most contrarious to pley, as is penaunce and suffring of persecution.
"He saide that byshopis, abbatis, prioris, parsonis, canonis resident, pristis, and all, were stronge thevis, ye dukis, lordis, and all," and went on to disabuse a few papistical practices.(46) The Imperial ambassador opined that the king had ordered this harsh sounding sermon, and those which immediately followed, as a means of persuading the people away from such practices of Roman origin as the belief in purgatory.