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Acipenser

NOUN
  1. type genus of the Acipenseridae: sturgeons

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  • Family Acipenseridae pallid sturgeon, Scaphirhynchus albus shovelnose sturgeon, Scaphirhynchus platorynchus Trout and Salmon of North America
  • Also, being closely related to sturgeons (family Acipenseridae), American paddlefish produce highly coveted roe, or caviar.
  • In addition, various karyotypic and genetic studies have found limited amounts of change in chromosomes and DNA sequences when different species of acipenseriforms are compared.
  • Of fresh-water fish, the sturgeon (_Acipenser sturio_ and _A. huso_), sterlet, salmon (_Salmo hucho_), and carp are found in the Danube; the mountain streams abound in trout. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
  • They have been suggested to be the sister group of Acipenseriformes + Neopterygii (gars, bowfin, and teleosts) by both morphological and molecular phylogenetic studies.
  • About 30 species within the arctic regions belonging to the families Petromyzontidae, Acipenseridae, Anguillidae, Clupeidae, Osmeridae, Salmonidae, and Gasterosteidae exhibit diadromous behavior (i.e., spend part of their lives in the marine environment and migrate to freshwater to spawn, or the converse). Effects of climate change on arctic anadromous fish
  • Acipenser, a hypothesis is an answer (a tentative one), not a question. Critical Thinking Exercise
  • In the collection of ganoids the most complete is representation of Acipenseriformes, mainly of acipenserids proper.
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