Japanese sawshark
Amazing fact
Japanese sawsharks hatch eggs inside their bodies and give birth to live young.
新潟市水族館 マリンピア日本海
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Japanese sawsharks hatch eggs inside their bodies and give birth to live young.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Japanese sawshark
- Scientific name
- Pristiophorus japonicus
- Japanese name
- ノコギリザメ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Class
- Chondrichthyes
- Order
- Pristiophoriformes
- Family
- Pristiophoridae
- Genus
- Pristiophorus
It lives on sandy bottoms in fairly deep coastal water, from southern Hokkaido to Taiwan and the East China Sea.
How the Japanese sawshark lives
It uses its long snout to catch small crustaceans, fish and molluscs on the seabed.
新潟市水族館 マリンピア日本海Basic data
- Range
- From southern Hokkaido south to Taiwan and the East China Sea
- Conservation status in Japan
- Data Deficient (DD)Ministry of the Environment of Japan, Marine Red List (2017)
Where the Japanese sawshark has been recorded
Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF
Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.
Names around the world
- 日本語
- ノコギリザメ
- 简体中文
- 日本锯鲨
- 繁體中文
- 日本鋸鯊
- 한국어
- 톱상어
- Deutsch
- Japanischer Sägehai
- Português (Brasil)
- Tubarão-serra-japonês
- Italiano
- Squalo sega giapponese
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Hiu gergaji jepang
- Tiếng Việt
- Cá nhám cưa Nhật Bản
- Русский
- Японский пилонос
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- 鳥羽水族館 — ノコギリザメChecked: 2026-11-04
- 新潟市水族館 マリンピア日本海 — ノコギリザメChecked: 2026-11-07
- Ministry of the Environment of Japan, Marine Red List (2017)Checked: 2026-11-07
We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.
The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.
The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.
The conservation status in Japan is the category in the Red Lists of the Ministry of the Environment of Japan, which assess the risk of extinction for wild animals in Japan.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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