Matthew McDavitt

• Research Attorney
• Rhino-Ray Cultural Historian

[Matthew McDavitt @mtmcdavitt]

@JordynNeal24 here is a contact (a man who posted about this animal):
Jean-François Marailhac
Email : [email protected]

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@JordynNeal24 @guitarfishmasum Reportedly, they’ve already buried the animal

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@JordynNeal24 @guitarfishmasum The megamouth shark was found in Silago, Philippines

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@raju_birder @fisheries @Min_FAHD @FishOceansCAN Those are juvneile Smoothnose Wedgefish (Rhynchobatus laevis) -- very valuable in the shark fin trade

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@SharksAndRaysAu - A Largetooth #sawfish using its saw to guide a Sandtiger away from food!

[🦈EGPS🦈サメ描く奴 @nasumisodsuke]

ノコギリエイにボコられるシロワニ置いときますね

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@AustSocFishBiol That fisher & others told me of multiple observations that the sawfish mate and birth in the lake

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@AustSocFishBiol Fascinating — back in 1998 I spent a summer at Lake Nicaragua and I spoke with a former dedicated sawfish fisher (over 100,000 Pristis pristis were taken for fins and meat from the lake during the 1970s until the population collapsed…

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@hakaimagazine I love that Hakai Magazine currently has 7 separate articles on octopi, among the most otherworldly and charming beasts!

[ASFB @AustSocFishBiol]

IN THE NEWS: The search for the habitat of an elusive fish, the clown wedgefish (Rhynchobatus cooki)

A team from Indonesia, Australia, & the US, are hoping to find the home of a heavily endangered fish, which has only ever been recorded at markets.

https://t.co/prOUTDd1rC

[NT Independent @independent_nt]

A research team made up of scientists from the United States, Indonesia and Charles Darwin University are searching for the elusive Clown Wedgefish, one of the world’s most endangered fish, in Indonesia’s Riau Islands. https://t.co/JKFfRwCjGq

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Wear marks on the rostral teeth of a Knifetooth #Sawfish (Anoxypristis cuspidata)

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@SurshtiPatel It’s in Tamil Nadu …

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When surveying the historical range of #sawfish in Southeast Asia, the collections of coastal temples can act as de facto "museums" documenting local catches, as sawfish saws have long been gifted by fishers as prized offerings...

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@AlecBMMoore

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@AlecBMMoore Maybe a stylized basking shark hunt? Certainly, there was a harpoon fishery at Anglesey, Wales, and the image closely resembles the 1785 engraving of a Basking Shark hunt by Moses Griffiths at Isle of Arran, Scotland...

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@AndreaKroetz @Elasmo_Gal @BarbieriSue @SawfishRecovery @NOAAFisheries @NOAAFisheriesSE Did you see this shrimp trawler catch of an adult male Smalltooth Sawfish (supposedly released) from TikTok in 2021? The vessel (apparently the “Princess Sophia”) is based in Georgia, but the catch was likely in Florida…

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Did you know? -- in the 1971 Japanese monster film "Gamera vs. Zigra", the alien fish antagonist Zigra was based on the otherworldly #GoblinShark #ジグラ

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@MickkGrant @saveourseas There is a local myth that a religious leader from Sulawesi arrived in the Mahakam River riding an enormous sawfish!

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@USMPhillipsLab @WillWhiteSharks @IUCNShark @USMArtsSciences @saveourseas @spottedcatshark @MarcusDrymon @AdisCG @urobatiskadii @Savicale Indeed…