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Acipenser fulvescens Rafinesque, 1817 
AphiaID: 271694

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Acipenseriformes (Order) > Acipenseridae (Family) > Acipenserinae (Subfamily) > Acipenser (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Acipenser Linnaeus, 1758
Synonymised
taxa
  Accipenser fulvescens Rafinesque, 1817
Sources  additional source: FishBase, version december 2007, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details]

additional source: FishBase, version may 2009 [details]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
English lake sturgeon  [details]
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Gulf of St. Lawrence [details]
Links To Barcode of Life (15 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (70 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To FAO Species fact sheets
To GenBank (403 nucleotides; 19 proteins)
To IUCN Red List
To ITIS
Images 
Acipenser fulvescens - lake sturgeon (ventral)
Acipenser fulvescens - lake sturgeon (ventral)
added on 2011-07-06 - author: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Claude Nozères ()
qualitystatus: not checked

Acipenser fulvescens - lake sturgeon (dorsal)
Acipenser fulvescens - lake sturgeon (dorsal)
added on 2011-07-06 - author: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Claude Nozères ()
qualitystatus: not checked

sturgeon - aquarium
sturgeon - aquarium
added on 2012-05-08 - author: Nozères, Claude
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:271694
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2008-01-15 17:27:08Z  created  Bailly, Nicolas
  
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  Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Acipenser fulvescens Rafinesque, 1817. 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=271694 on 2013-05-23
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