WoRMS taxon details
Acipenser oxyrhynchus Mitchill, 1814
AphiaID: 157870
AphiaID: 157870
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Acipenseriformes (Order) > Acipenseridae (Family) > Acipenserinae (Subfamily) > Acipenser (Genus) |
| Status |  unaccepted (misspelling) | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Accepted name | Acipenser oxyrinchus Mitchill, 1815 | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Acipenser Linnaeus, 1758 | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Scott, W.B., and S.N. Messieh. 1976. Common Canadian Atlantic fishes. Huntsman Marine Laboratory. St. Andrews, N.B. 106 p. [details] additional source: FishBase, version december 2007, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details] additional source: FishBase, version may 2009 [details] additional source: FishBase, version october 2012 [details] additional source: Collette, B.B., and G. Klein-MacPhee (eds.). 2002. Bigelow and Schroeder's Fishes of the Gulf of Maine, 3rd edition. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington and London. 748 p. [details] source of synonymy: Eschmeyer, W.: Catalog of fishes; California Academy of Sciences, department Ichtyology., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/Ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp [details] | |||||||||||||
| Vernacular Names |
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| Direct child taxa [show all] | Subspecies Acipenser oxyrhynchus desotoi Vladykov, 1955 accepted as Acipenser oxyrinchus Mitchill, 1815 Subspecies Acipenser oxyrhynchus oxyrhynchus Mitchill, 1815 accepted as Acipenser oxyrinchus Mitchill, 1815 | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, brackish, fresh | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Gulf of Maine [details] North West Atlantic [details] | |||||||||||||
| Host of |
Dichelesthium oblongum (Abildgaard, 1794) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
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| Links | To Barcode of Life To Biodiversity Heritage Library (114 publications) To FishBase To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Diet: Feeds on bottom organisms such as plants, insect larvae, crustaceans, molluscs and annelid worms [details] Distribution: Hamilton River, Labrador to northeastern Florida [details] Habitat: benthic [details] Habitat: Anadromous; spends first 3-4 years in freshwater, then migrates to sea and returns to spawn in freshwater [details] Importance: Social- Commercial [details] Predators: Silver lamprey [details] Reproduction: External fertilization; egg count ranges from 800,000 to 2.4 million [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:157870 | |||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Acipenser oxyrhynchus Mitchill, 1814. In: Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2013) FishBase. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=157870 on 2013-05-25 | ||||||||||||||
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