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This is true swordfish, xiphias gladius, not to be confused with sawfish, pristis pectinata, which is a north Atlantic fish often sold as "swordfish steaks" in US restaurants.
A Guide to Mexican Fish and Shellfish - Part Two: Las Delicias del Mar 2006
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This is true swordfish, xiphias gladius, not to be confused with sawfish, pristis pectinata, which is a north Atlantic fish often sold as "swordfish steaks" in US restaurants.
A Guide to Mexican Fish and Shellfish - Part Two: Las Delicias del Mar 2006
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This is true swordfish, xiphias gladius, not to be confused with sawfish, pristis pectinata, which is a north Atlantic fish often sold as "swordfish steaks" in US restaurants.
A Guide to Mexican Fish and Shellfish - Part Two: Las Delicias del Mar 2006
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Migrant pelagic include tunnies Thunnus spp., smalltooth sawfish Pristis pectinata guitarfish Rhinobatos spp., and smooth hammerhead shark Sphyrna zygaena.
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Reptiles include river crocodile Crocodylus acutus, green iguana Iguana iguana, Boa constrictor and Mexican spiny-tailed iguana Ctenosaura pectinata.
Islands and Protected Areas of the Gulf of California, Mexico 2008
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Other typical species found here are Najas pectinata, Eichhornia crassipes, and Cyperus and Juncus spp. that grow along lake shores.
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Many of the trees in these broadleaf forests such as Gnetum montanus, Cycas pectinata, Cyathea spinulosa (tree ferns), Rauwolfia serpentina, Pandanus nepalensis, Calamus lalifolius, C. leptospadix, Phoenix humilis, and Phoenix sylvestris have become very rare in Nepal.
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Dipteris Horsfieldii and Matonia pectinata, which bear large spreading palmate fronds on slender stems six or eight feet high.
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There was one fern in profusion, with from 90 to 130 pair of pinnae on each frond; and the fronds, though often exceeding five feet in length, were only two inches broad (Nephrolepis pectinata).
The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004
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Danthonia pectinata, 319. — — * triticoides LINDL.
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia 2003
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