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TITLE: ON A LARGE SAWFISH (PRISTIS PERROTTETI MULL. AND HENLEY) CAUGHT AT BOMBAY
Author : S.H.Prater
Journal, Bombay Natural History Society,Vol (45) No 2, April 1945,Page no 435.
Abstract

A saw fish (Pristis perrotteti) was caught by fisherman of Government house, Backbay, Bombay, on the morning of the 16th August 1938 and brought to beach on chowpatty islands. A complete cast was made of the fish by the Museum staff, working far into the night and under considerable difficulties, the least was the keeping back of the crowds which gather to see the monster.