WoRMS name details
Acipenser oxyrhynchus Mitchill, 1814
157870 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:157870)
unaccepted (misspelling)
Species
Subspecies Acipenser oxyrhynchus desotoi Vladykov, 1955 accepted as Acipenser oxyrinchus Mitchill, 1815 (misspelling)
Subspecies Acipenser oxyrhynchus oxyrhynchus Mitchill, 1815 accepted as Acipenser oxyrinchus Mitchill, 1815 (misspelling)
Subspecies Acipenser oxyrhynchus oxyrhynchus Mitchill, 1815 accepted as Acipenser oxyrinchus Mitchill, 1815 (misspelling)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Acipenser oxyrinchus Mitchill, 1815) 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]
Distribution Hamilton River, Labrador to northeastern Florida
Distribution Hamilton River, Labrador to northeastern Florida [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2023). FishBase. Acipenser oxyrhynchus Mitchill, 1814. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=157870 on 2023-03-28
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original description
(of Acipenser oxyrinchus Mitchill, 1815) 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]
basis of record Scott, W.B., and S.N. Messieh. (1976). Common Canadian Atlantic fishes. <em>Huntsman Marine Laboratory. St. Andrews, N.B.</em> 106 p. [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]
additional source Collette, B. B., ; Klein-MacPhee, G. (2002). Bigelow and Schroeder's Fishes of the Gulf of Maine. <em>Smithsonian Institution Press.</em> 1-748. [details]
source of synonymy Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2022). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. <em>California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco.</em> Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2022., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/Ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp [details]
basis of record Scott, W.B., and S.N. Messieh. (1976). Common Canadian Atlantic fishes. <em>Huntsman Marine Laboratory. St. Andrews, N.B.</em> 106 p. [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]
additional source Collette, B. B., ; Klein-MacPhee, G. (2002). Bigelow and Schroeder's Fishes of the Gulf of Maine. <em>Smithsonian Institution Press.</em> 1-748. [details]
source of synonymy Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2022). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. <em>California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco.</em> Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2022., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/Ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From other sources
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 Anadromous; spends first 3-4 years in freshwater, then migrates to sea and returns to spawn in freshwater [details]
Habitat benthic [details]
Importance Social- Commercial [details]
Predators Silver lamprey [details]
Reproduction External fertilization; egg count ranges from 800,000 to 2.4 million [details]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| English | Atlantic sturgeon | [details] |
