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  1. Life
  2. Animals
  3. Chordates
  4. Ray-finned Fishes
  5. Sturgeons and Paddlefishes
  6. Sturgeons

family

Sturgeons

Acipenseridae

Includes
4 native
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Great Sturgeons 1 native
  • Typical Sturgeons 1 native
  • Pacific Sturgeons 1 native
  • Shovelnose Sturgeons 1 native

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Most observed native sturgeons All

Native to the US, by observations.

  • Lake Sturgeon Huso fulvescens 1,231 observations
  • White Sturgeon Sinosturio transmontanus 1,014 observations
  • Atlantic Sturgeon Acipenser oxyrinchus 439 observations
  • Shovelnose Sturgeon Scaphirhynchus platorynchus 250 observations
  • Green Sturgeon Sinosturio medirostris 89 observations
  • Shortnose Sturgeon Huso brevirostrum 65 observations
  • Pallid Sturgeon Scaphirhynchus albus 48 observations
  • Gulf Sturgeon Acipenser desotoi 45 observations

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