The rostral teeth are rounded and lack the grooves seen in Largetooth sawfish, and if present, they are very small and limited.

[4] The dwarf sawfish is native to the western and central Indo-Pacific region and historically had a much wider range than it does now.

It typically inhabits inshore waters, estuaries, tidal mudflats and sometimes the lowest reaches of rivers.

The main threat facing the dwarf sawfish is being caught as bycatch in gillnets and trawl nets.

However, the threats are continuing, and there is no reason to believe that the population of dwarf sawfish is recovering from previous declines.