Scaphirhynchinae
Scaphirhynchinae Temporal range: [1]
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Pallid sturgeon, Scaphirhynchus albus | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Acipenseriformes |
Family: | Acipenseridae |
Subfamily: | Scaphirhynchinae |
Genera | |
Scaphirhynchinae is a subfamily of sturgeon which includes two genera comprising a total of six species.
- Genus Scaphirhynchus Heckel, 1835 (native to North America)
- Scaphirhynchus albus (Forbes & , 1905) (Pallid sturgeon)
- Scaphirhynchus platorynchus (Rafinesque, 1820) (Shovelnose sturgeon)
- Scaphirhynchus suttkusi & , 1991 (Alabama sturgeon)
- Genus Pseudoscaphirhynchus Nikolskii, 1900 (native to Central Asia)
- Pseudoscaphirhynchus fedtschenkoi (Kessler, 1872) (Syr Darya sturgeon)
- Pseudoscaphirhynchus hermanni (Kessler, 1877) (Dwarf sturgeon)
- Pseudoscaphirhynchus kaufmanni (Kessler, 1877) (Amu Darya sturgeon)
References[]
- ^ Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2009). "Acipenseridae" in FishBase. January 2009 version.
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- Scaphirhynchinae
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