Bahamas sawshark

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Bahamas sawshark
Conservation status
Data deficient
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Subclass: Elasmobranchii
Order: Pristiophoriformes
Family: Pristiophoridae
Genus: Pristiophorus
Species: P. schroederi
Binomial name
Pristiophorus schroederi
Springer & Bullis, 1960

The Bahamas sawshark, Pristiophorus schroederi, is a sawshark of the family Pristiophoridae, found in the western Central Atlantic Ocean from the Bahamas and Cuba at depths of between 400 and 1,000 m.

The Bahamas sawshark is found on continental and insular slopes. Its reproduction is ovoviviparous.

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