different between jawfish vs sawfish

English

Etymology

jaw +? fish

Noun

jawfish (plural jawfishes or jawfish)

1. Any of many marine fish, of the family Opistognathidae, that have large mouths.

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

saw +? fish

Noun

sawfish (plural sawfishes or sawfish)

1. Any ray (marine fish with a flat body and wing-like fins) of the family Pristidae, having a snout that resembles a saw.
   • 2002, Maurice Burton, Robert Burton, Sawfish, entry in International Wildlife Encyclopedia, Volume 16: Rifleman - sea slug, page 2238,

     The sawlike snout that gives the sawfish its common name may represent up to one-third of its total body length. Despite its sharklike shape, the sawfish is more closely related to rays.

   • 2015 June 6, Sawfish babies don’t need a dad, New Scientist, Issue 3024, page 17,

     Smalltooth sawfish native to rivers in south-west Florida appear to have given birth without sex – essentially cloning themselves.

     The sawfish (Pristis pectinata) – a type of ray that grows up to 7 metres long – is a critically endangered species. […] The sawfish is the first vertebrate shown to use parthenogenesis in the wild.

Derived terms

• dwarf sawfish (= Queensland sawfish)
• freshwater sawfish (= largetooth sawfish)
• green sawfish (= longcomb sawfish)
• knifetooth sawfish (Anoxypristis cuspidata)
• common sawfish (Pristis pristis)
• largetooth sawfish (Pristis microdon; disputed, may = P. pristis)
• large-tooth sawfish (Pristis perotteti; disputed, may = P. pristis)
• Leichhardt's sawfish (= largetooth sawfish)
• longcomb sawfish (Pristis zijsron)
• narrowsnout sawfish (= longcomb sawfish)
• Queensland sawfish (Pristis clavata)
• smalltooth sawfish (Pristis pectinata)
• wide sawfish (= smalltooth sawfish)

Translations

See also

• Pristidae
• ray