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Acipenseridae - English
URL: http://cichlidresearch.com/fish_html/facipens.html

The Family Acipenseridae contains these Genera: Acipenser, Huso, Pseudoscaphirhynchus = Kessleria, Scaphirhynchus.

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Acipenseridae - English
URL: http://www.fmnh.helsinki.fi/users/haaramo/Metazoa/Deuterostoma/Chordata/Actinopt

Phylogenetic tree.

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Sturgeons - English
URL: http://elib.cs.berkeley.edu/kopec/tr9/html/fam-sturgeons.html

Seven species of sturgeon have been reported in North America, and two of them are found in California waters: green sturgeon, Acipenser medirostris, and white sturgeon, Acipenser transmontanus. Both are anadromous and native to the Sacramento-San Joaquin estuary.

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Acipenseridae - English
URL: http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/FamilySummary.cfm?ID=32

Cold to temperate waters of the Northern Hemisphere. Anadromous or restricted to freshwater. Body with 5 rows of scutes. Mouth inferior and protractile. Four barbels anterior to mouth. Less than 50 gill rakers. Adults toothless. Large swim bladder. Attain 4.2 m or longer. Important for their meat and roe. Nearly all species are endangered or threatened.

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InterNevod: Осетровые (Acipenseridae) - Russian
URL: http://www.internevod.com/rus/academy/bio/k_fish/acipenseridae.shtml

Характеристика семейства, рисунки представителей: калуга (Huso dauricus); сибирский осетр (Acipenser baeri); белуга (Huso huso); русский осетр (Acipenser guldenstadti); шип (A. nudiventris); севрюга (A. stellatus); атлантический осетр (A. sturio); сахалинский осетр (A. medirosfcris); стерлядь (A. ruthenus); большой амударьинский лопатонос (Pscudoscaphirhynchus kaufmanni).

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