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The lake sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens), also known as the rock sturgeon, [7] is a North American temperate freshwater fish, one of about 25 species of sturgeon.Like other sturgeons, this species is a bottom feeder and has a partly cartilaginous skeleton, an overall streamlined shape, and skin bearing rows of bony plates on the sides and back.
Sturgeon Lake is a lake on Sauvie Island in the U.S. state of Oregon. [1] Named for its historical population of sturgeon , it is the largest lake on what is one of the largest river islands in the United States. [ 2 ]
Sturgeon (from Old English styrġa ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *str̥(Hx)yón-[1]) is the common name for the 28 species of fish belonging to the family Acipenseridae. The earliest sturgeon fossils date to the Late Cretaceous , and are descended from other, earlier acipenseriform fish , which date back to the Early Jurassic period, some ...
Sturgeon Lake (Alberta), a lake in Alberta, west of Valleyview; Ontario Sturgeon Lake (north Kenora District), a lake in northwestern Ontario, in northern Kenora District in the Hayes River watershed; Sturgeon Lake (Northwestern Ontario), a lake in northwestern Ontario, in eastern Kenora and north-western Thunder Bay Districts
Sturgeon Lake [2] is a lake in north-western Alberta, Canada.It has a total area of 49.1 km 2 (19.0 sq mi) and a maximum depth of 9.5 m (31 ft). [1] It is located in the hydrographic basin of the Little Smoky River at an elevation of 685 m, 20 km west of the town of Valleyview, along Highway 43.
Acipenser is a genus of sturgeons.With 17 living species (others are only known from fossil remains), it is the largest genus in the order Acipenseriformes.The genus is paraphyletic, containing all sturgeons that do not belong to Huso, Scaphirhynchus, or Pseudoscaphirhynchus, with many species more closely related to the other three genera than they are to other species of Acipenser.
White sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus) is a species of sturgeon in the family Acipenseridae of the order Acipenseriformes.They are an anadromous (migratory) fish species ranging in the Eastern Pacific; from the Gulf of Alaska to Monterey, California.
Sturgeon Lake is a lake in the Kawartha Lakes region of Ontario, Canada. It is part of the Trent-Severn Waterway. The lake is Y-shaped and has the communities of Fenelon Falls, Lindsay, Sturgeon Point and Bobcaygeon at the north-west, south, central and north-east points of the Y respectively. The lake is approximately 25 km (16 mi) from the ...