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Acipenser sturio
Sturgeon Stur"geon, n. [F. esturgeon, LL. sturio, sturgio, OHG. sturjo, G. st["o]r; akin to AS. styria, styriga.] (Zo["o]l.) Any one of numerous species of large cartilaginous ganoid fishes belonging to Acipenser and allied genera of the family Acipenserid[ae]. They run up rivers to spawn, and are common on the coasts and in the large rivers and lakes of North America, Europe, and Asia. Caviare is prepared from the roe, and isinglass from the air bladder. Note: The common North American species are Acipenser sturio of the Atlantic coast region, A. transmontanus of the Pacific coast, and A. rubicundus of the Mississippi River and its tributaries. In Europe, the common species is Acipenser sturio, and other well-known species are the sterlet and the huso. The sturgeons are included in the order Chondrostei. Their body is partially covered by five rows of large, carinated, bony plates, of which one row runs along the back. The tail is heterocercal. The toothless and protrusile mouth is beneath the head, and has four barbels in front. Shovel-nosed sturgeon. (Zo["o]l.) See Shovelnose (d) .
Acipenser sturio
Sturgeon Stur"geon, n. [F. esturgeon, LL. sturio, sturgio, OHG. sturjo, G. st["o]r; akin to AS. styria, styriga.] (Zo["o]l.) Any one of numerous species of large cartilaginous ganoid fishes belonging to Acipenser and allied genera of the family Acipenserid[ae]. They run up rivers to spawn, and are common on the coasts and in the large rivers and lakes of North America, Europe, and Asia. Caviare is prepared from the roe, and isinglass from the air bladder. Note: The common North American species are Acipenser sturio of the Atlantic coast region, A. transmontanus of the Pacific coast, and A. rubicundus of the Mississippi River and its tributaries. In Europe, the common species is Acipenser sturio, and other well-known species are the sterlet and the huso. The sturgeons are included in the order Chondrostei. Their body is partially covered by five rows of large, carinated, bony plates, of which one row runs along the back. The tail is heterocercal. The toothless and protrusile mouth is beneath the head, and has four barbels in front. Shovel-nosed sturgeon. (Zo["o]l.) See Shovelnose (d) .
Sturiones
Sturiones Stu`ri*o"nes, n. pl. [NL., from LL. sturio. See Sturgeon.] (Zo["o]l.) An order of fishes including the sturgeons.
Sturionian
Sturionian Stu`ri*o"ni*an, n. (Zo["o]l.) One of the family of fishes of which the sturgeon is the type.

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- The European sea sturgeon (Acipenser sturio), also known as the Atlantic sturgeon or common sturgeon, is a species of sturgeon native to Europe. It was...
- Platystomatichthys sturio is the only species in the genus Platystomatichthys of the catfish (order Siluriformes) family Pimelodidae. It is sometimes called...
- this arrangement as paraphyletic, instead finding A. oxyrhinchus and A. sturio to form the most basal clade among sturgeons, and all other species being...
- during the tidal bore and flood flow. The European sea sturgeon (Acipenser sturio), also known as the Atlantic sturgeon or common sturgeon, is now a Critically...
- sturgeon) Acipenser oxyrinchus Mitchill, 1815 (Atlantic sturgeon) Acipenser sturio Linnaeus, 1758 (type species) (European sea sturgeon) The following species...
- (360 kg) in weight. Alongside its relative the European sea sturgeon (A. sturio), the Atlantic sturgeon is one of the most basal members of the sturgeon...
- Anguilla anguilla Northern pike Esox lucius European sea sturgeon Acipenser sturio (unconfirmed in the Loch, but known from Beauly–Moray Firth, which is connected...
- of the snout (in A. sturio they are closer to the mouth); the mouth ends just after the front end of the operculum (in A. sturio it ends in the middle...
- rod and line in fresh water in Britain. This was a sturgeon (Acipwienser sturio) weighing 388 lb (176 kg) and nine feet two inches (2.79 m) in length which...
- (A. desotoi) Atlantic sturgeon (A. oxyrinchus) European sea sturgeon (A. sturio) Huso Siberian sturgeon (H. baerii) Shortnose sturgeon (H. brevirostrum)...