WoRMS taxon details
Acipenser oxyrinchus Mitchill, 1815
151802 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:151802)
accepted
Species
Acipenser bairdii Duméril, 1870 · unaccepted
Acipenser girardi Duméril, 1870 · unaccepted
Acipenser hallowellii Duméril, 1870 · unaccepted
Acipenser holbrookii Duméril, 1870 · unaccepted
Acipenser kennicottii Duméril, 1870 · unaccepted
Acipenser lecontei Duméril, 1867 · unaccepted
Acipenser lichtensteinii Bloch & Schneider, 1801 · unaccepted
Acipenser macrorhinus Duméril, 1870 · unaccepted
Acipenser oxyrhynchus Mitchill, 1814 · unaccepted (misspelling)
Acipenser oxyrhynchus oxyrhynchus Mitchill, 1815 · unaccepted (misspelling)
Acipenser oxyrinchus de sotoi Vladykov, 1955 · unaccepted (misspelling)
Acipenser oxyrinchus oxyrinchus Mitchill, 1815 · unaccepted
Sturio accipenser Strøm, 1784 · unaccepted
- Subspecies Acipenser oxyrinchus de sotoi Vladykov, 1955 accepted as Acipenser oxyrinchus Mitchill, 1815 (misspelling)
- Subspecies Acipenser oxyrinchus desotoi Vladykov, 1955 accepted as Acipenser desotoi Vladykov, 1955 (unaccepted > superseded rank)
- Subspecies Acipenser oxyrinchus oxyrinchus Mitchill, 1815 accepted as Acipenser oxyrinchus Mitchill, 1815
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Mitchill, S. L. (1815). The fishes of New-York, described and arranged. <em>Transactions of the Literary and Philosophical Society of New-York.</em> v. 1 (art. 5) (for 1814): 355-492, Pls. 1-6. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Acipenser oxyrinchus Mitchill, 1815. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=151802 on 2025-07-18
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Nomenclature
original description
Mitchill, S. L. (1815). The fishes of New-York, described and arranged. <em>Transactions of the Literary and Philosophical Society of New-York.</em> v. 1 (art. 5) (for 1814): 355-492, Pls. 1-6. [details]
original description (of Sturio accipenser Strøm, 1784) Strøm, H. (1784). Physisk-oeconomisk beskrivelse over Eger-praestgiaeld i Aggerhuus-stift i Norge; tilligemed et geographisk Kort over samme. Gyldendals. <em>Copenhagen.</em> 228 pp. (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 129 [details]
original description (of Acipenser lichtensteinii Bloch & Schneider, 1801) Bloch, M.E.; Schneider, J.G. (1801). M.E. Blochii, Systema Ichthyologiae iconibus cx illustratum. Post obitum auctoris opus inchoatum absolvit, correxit, interpolavit Jo. <em>Gottlob Schneider, Saxo. Berolini. Sumtibus Auctoris Impressum et Bibliopolio Sanderiano Commissum.</em> Pp i-lx + 1-584, Pls. 1-110., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/5750#/summary
page(s): 348, Pl. 69 [details]
basis of record Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2025). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. <em>California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco.</em> Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2025., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/Ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp [details]
original description (of Sturio accipenser Strøm, 1784) Strøm, H. (1784). Physisk-oeconomisk beskrivelse over Eger-praestgiaeld i Aggerhuus-stift i Norge; tilligemed et geographisk Kort over samme. Gyldendals. <em>Copenhagen.</em> 228 pp. (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 129 [details]
original description (of Acipenser lichtensteinii Bloch & Schneider, 1801) Bloch, M.E.; Schneider, J.G. (1801). M.E. Blochii, Systema Ichthyologiae iconibus cx illustratum. Post obitum auctoris opus inchoatum absolvit, correxit, interpolavit Jo. <em>Gottlob Schneider, Saxo. Berolini. Sumtibus Auctoris Impressum et Bibliopolio Sanderiano Commissum.</em> Pp i-lx + 1-584, Pls. 1-110., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/5750#/summary
page(s): 348, Pl. 69 [details]
basis of record Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2025). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. <em>California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco.</em> Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2025., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/Ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp [details]
Ecology
ecology source
Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details] 
Other
context source (Bermuda)
Smith-Vaniz, W. F.; Collette, B. B.; Luckhurst, B. E (1999). Fishes of Bermuda: History, zoogeography, annotated checklist, and identification keys
(American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists - Special Publication No.4)
. ASIH, 424 pp. [details]
additional source Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
additional source McEachran, J. D. (2009). Fishes (Vertebrata: Pisces) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1223–1316 in: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details]
additional source Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
additional source McEachran, J. D. (2009). Fishes (Vertebrata: Pisces) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1223–1316 in: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Unreviewed
Spelling A. oxyrhinchus [details]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Danish | Vestatlantisk stør | [details] |
| Dutch | Atlantische steur | [details] |
| English | paddlefishesAtlantic sturgeon | [details] |
| French | esturgeon noir | [details] |
| German | Atlantischer Stör | [details] |
| Italian | storione Atlantico | [details] |
| Lithuanian | aštriašnypis eršketas | [details] |
| Polish | jesiotr ostronosyjesiotr atlantycki | [details] |
| Russian | остроносый осётр | [details] |
| Spanish | esturión del Atlántico | [details] |
| Swedish | Atlantisk stör | [details] |
| Turkish | Atlantik mersin balığı | [details] |
| Ukrainian | Осетер атлантичнийАтлантичний осетер | [details] |
To Barcode of Life (21 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Acipenser bairdii Duméril, 1870)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Acipenser holbrookii Duméril, 1870)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Acipenser kennicottii Duméril, 1870)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (130 publications) (from synonym Acipenser oxyrhynchus Mitchill, 1814)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Acipenser oxyrhynchus oxyrhynchus Mitchill, 1815)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Acipenser girardi Duméril, 1870)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Acipenser hallowellii Duméril, 1870)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Acipenser lichtensteinii Bloch & Schneider, 1801)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Acipenser macrorhinus Duméril, 1870)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (25 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Acipenser lecontei Duméril, 1867)
To Dyntaxa
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Acipenser oxyrinchus oxyrinchus) (from synonym Acipenser oxyrinchus oxyrinchus Mitchill, 1815)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Acipenser oxyrinchus)
To FAO Species fact sheets
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Acipenser oxyrhynchus Mitchill, 1814)
To FishBase (from synonym Acipenser oxyrinchus oxyrinchus Mitchill, 1815)
To FishBase (from synonym Acipenser oxyrhynchus oxyrhynchus Mitchill, 1815)
To FishBase (from synonym Acipenser lichtensteinii Bloch & Schneider, 1801)
To FishBase (from synonym Sturio accipenser Strøm, 1784)
To FishBase (from synonym Acipenser lecontei Duméril, 1867)
To FishBase (from synonym Acipenser bairdii Duméril, 1870)
To FishBase (from synonym Acipenser girardi Duméril, 1870)
To FishBase (from synonym Acipenser holbrookii Duméril, 1870)
To FishBase (from synonym Acipenser hallowellii Duméril, 1870)
To FishBase (from synonym Acipenser macrorhinus Duméril, 1870)
To FishBase (from synonym Acipenser kennicottii Duméril, 1870)
To FishBase (from synonym Acipenser oxyrinchus de sotoi Vladykov, 1955)
To FishSounds
To GenBank (171 nucleotides; 90 proteins)
To GenBank (3174 nucleotides; 28061 proteins) (from synonym Acipenser oxyrhynchus oxyrhynchus Mitchill, 1815)
To GenBank (3174 nucleotides; 28061 proteins) (from synonym Acipenser oxyrinchus oxyrinchus Mitchill, 1815)
To Information system on Aquatic Non-Indigenous and Cryptogenic Species (AquaNIS)
To IUCN Red List (Vulnerable)
To PESI
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Acipenser bairdii Duméril, 1870)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Acipenser holbrookii Duméril, 1870)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Acipenser kennicottii Duméril, 1870)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (130 publications) (from synonym Acipenser oxyrhynchus Mitchill, 1814)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Acipenser oxyrhynchus oxyrhynchus Mitchill, 1815)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Acipenser girardi Duméril, 1870)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Acipenser hallowellii Duméril, 1870)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Acipenser lichtensteinii Bloch & Schneider, 1801)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Acipenser macrorhinus Duméril, 1870)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (25 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Acipenser lecontei Duméril, 1867)
To Dyntaxa
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Acipenser oxyrinchus oxyrinchus) (from synonym Acipenser oxyrinchus oxyrinchus Mitchill, 1815)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Acipenser oxyrinchus)
To FAO Species fact sheets
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Acipenser oxyrhynchus Mitchill, 1814)
To FishBase (from synonym Acipenser oxyrinchus oxyrinchus Mitchill, 1815)
To FishBase (from synonym Acipenser oxyrhynchus oxyrhynchus Mitchill, 1815)
To FishBase (from synonym Acipenser lichtensteinii Bloch & Schneider, 1801)
To FishBase (from synonym Sturio accipenser Strøm, 1784)
To FishBase (from synonym Acipenser lecontei Duméril, 1867)
To FishBase (from synonym Acipenser bairdii Duméril, 1870)
To FishBase (from synonym Acipenser girardi Duméril, 1870)
To FishBase (from synonym Acipenser holbrookii Duméril, 1870)
To FishBase (from synonym Acipenser hallowellii Duméril, 1870)
To FishBase (from synonym Acipenser macrorhinus Duméril, 1870)
To FishBase (from synonym Acipenser kennicottii Duméril, 1870)
To FishBase (from synonym Acipenser oxyrinchus de sotoi Vladykov, 1955)
To FishSounds
To GenBank (171 nucleotides; 90 proteins)
To GenBank (3174 nucleotides; 28061 proteins) (from synonym Acipenser oxyrhynchus oxyrhynchus Mitchill, 1815)
To GenBank (3174 nucleotides; 28061 proteins) (from synonym Acipenser oxyrinchus oxyrinchus Mitchill, 1815)
To Information system on Aquatic Non-Indigenous and Cryptogenic Species (AquaNIS)
To IUCN Red List (Vulnerable)
To PESI
To ITIS
Unreviewed
