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Herbert has or used to have 26 threatened animals within its boundaries. One of them is me, the Green Sawfish.

We took care to attach appropriate images that are as close to representative of each species as our resources and the availability of images allowed. However, we could not ensure perfect accuracy in every case. Some images show species that share the same genus but not at the species or subspecies level.

Green Sawfish

Pristis zijsron

Status: Vulnerable

The Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act) lists threatened species under six categories:
Extinct, Extinct in the wild, Critically Endangered, Endangered, Vulnerable, Conservation dependent. Read more about these categories

Pristis zijsron is found across 10 electorates.

Green Sawfish is a species of large ray from the family Pristidae. Green Sawfish have a shark-like body, a flattened head and an elongated snout or rostrum, which is studded with 24–28 pairs of unevenly-spaced rostral teeth. This tooth-studded rostrum is commonly described as the 'saw'. The first dorsal fin origin is slightly behind the pelvic fin origin and the lower lobe of the caudal fin is much shorter than half the length of the upper lobe. Green Sawfish are greenish brown or olive in colour on their upper surfaces and pale to white on their undersides. Mature adult Green Sawfish can grow to 5 m in length in Australian waters.¹

Explore more about this species on the Atlas of Living Australia

Changed surface and groundwater regimes