Two fishermen struggling with a critically endangered largetooth sawfish, Pristis pristis, in high waves on a rocky shore. Le squale scie, Squalus pristis. Handcoloured steel engraving by Charles Beyer after an illustration by Edouard Travies from Bernard Germain de Lacepede’s Histoire Naturelle de Lacepede, comprenant les cetaces, les quadrupedes ovipares, les serpents et les poissons, Furne et Cie, Paris, 1847.

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