rostrum

anatomy

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In sawfish
…dangerous, but their saws (or rostrums), constituting as much as one-third their total length, can be formidable. The saws are used in feeding, in digging out bottom animals, and, when lashed about, in killing or maiming schooling fishes. These structures also contain electroreceptors called ampullae of Lorenzini, which can detect…
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