The Largetooth Sawfish

Appearance

• Dark gray to golden brown color
• 1,300 pounds
• 23 feet

Adaptations

• The saw on its nose
• Lives in Salt Water
• An Osmoregulator
• Sluggish and doesn't swin fast
• Ovoviviparous (has eggs inside itself, gives birth)

Interactions with the Environment

• Zone that it lives in: Sunlight Zone
• Does it stay in one zone?: Yes
• Lives in: Lake Nicaragua

Abiotic Factors in the Sunlight Zone

• Average Depth: 0-300 ft.
• Average Light: Abundant
• Average Temperature: 64.4 Degrees Fahrenheit

Interactions with Prey

• Animal Type: Carnivore
• Is it a predator: Yes.
• What it eats: Small Fish, Prawns, and Crustacean
• Is it prey: No
• Where is it on an energy pyramid: The Top; Eats prey, no predators

How it hunts

• It goes into a school of fish and swings its "saw" to hurt the fish, and eats the fish.

Negative ways Humans impact the creature

• They get entangled in nets
• Humans destroy their habitat

Positive ways humans impact the creature

• We protect oceans.
• We establish certain laws for the ocean.

Interesting facts about the Largetooth

• Their teeth are not real teeth; they're modified scales.
• There are only two sawfish species in the US.

Things we could do to protect the Largetooth

• We could stop fishing them
• Protect their habitat

Where the Sawfish Lives

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