WoRMS taxon details

Acipenser brevirostrum Lesueur, 1818

157869  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:157869)

accepted
Species
Acipenser brevirostris Lesueur, 1818 · unaccepted (misspelling)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Lesueur, C. A. (1818). Description of several species of chondropterygious fishes of North America, with their varieties. <em>Transactions of the American Philosophical Society (New Series).</em> 1 (33): 383-394, Pl. 12. [details]   
Distribution St. John River, NB to Saint Johns River, Florida  
Distribution St. John River, NB to Saint Johns River, Florida [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2024). FishBase. Acipenser brevirostrum Lesueur, 1818. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=157869 on 2024-05-06
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2005-05-24 14:41:52Z
created
2008-01-15 17:27:08Z
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2017-07-06 07:01:09Z
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2017-07-20 07:00:16Z
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2017-08-18 10:28:24Z
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original description Lesueur, C. A. (1818). Description of several species of chondropterygious fishes of North America, with their varieties. <em>Transactions of the American Philosophical Society (New Series).</em> 1 (33): 383-394, Pl. 12. [details]   

basis of record Robins, C. R.; Ray, G. C.; Douglass, J.; Freund, R. (1986). A field guide to Atlantic coast fishes of North America. <em>Houghton Mifflin Co. Boston.</em> 1-354. [details]   

additional source Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2023). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (02/2023)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]   

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]  OpenAccess publication 
 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

From other sources
Diet Feeds on bottoms organisms including molluscs, gastropods and clams [details]

Distribution St. John River, NB to Saint Johns River, Florida [details]

Habitat benthic [details]

Habitat Anadromous species; found mainly in river mouths, tidal rivers, estuaries and bays. [details]

Importance Social & Scientific- Minor commercial, eggs used as caviar; gamefish  [details]

Reproduction External fertilization; spawns between mid May and mid June [details]
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English shortnose sturgeon  [details]