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Fish is a more important dietary staple for pallid sturgeon than it is for shovelnose sturgeon. [34] In one study comparing dietary tendencies between adult shovelnose sturgeon and immature pallid sturgeon, the pallid sturgeon was found to consume far greater numbers of small fish such as cyprinids (minnows). [33]
The shovelnose sturgeon (Scaphirhynchus platorynchus) [5] is the smallest species of freshwater sturgeon native to North America. It is often called hackleback , sand sturgeon , or switchtail . Switchtail refers to the long filament found on the upper lobe of the caudal fin (often broken off as adults).
Scaphirhynchus is a genus of sturgeons native to North America. All species in this genus are considered to be threatened with extinction or worse. [2] [3] [4] As of 2023, the pallid sturgeon (S. albus) [3] and the Alabama sturgeon (S. suttkusi) [4] are critically endangered according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
One of few domestic wild sturgeon that can be legally fished for caviar, hackleback — also called shovelnose sturgeon — is indigenous to the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers. Their eggs are ...
The pallid sturgeon is an ancient fish native to the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers. The fish was listed as an endangered species in the 1990s.
Scaphirhynchus albus (Forbes & R. E. Richardson, 1905) (Pallid sturgeon) Scaphirhynchus platorynchus (Rafinesque, 1820) (Shovelnose sturgeon) Scaphirhynchus suttkusi J. D. Williams & Clemmer, 1991 (Alabama sturgeon) Genus Pseudoscaphirhynchus Nikolskii, 1900 (native to Central Asia) Pseudoscaphirhynchus fedtschenkoi (Kessler, 1872) (Syr Darya ...
Pallid sturgeon; S. Shovelnose sturgeon This page was last edited on 3 January 2014, at 05:32 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
Fossil of the †chondrosteid †Strongylosteus hindenburgi, Tübingen Fossil of the †peipiaosteid †Yanosteus longidorsalis, MHNT The living polyodontid Polyodon spathula (American paddlefish) The living acipenserid Acipenser ruthenus (sterlet) The living acipenserid Pseudoscaphirhynchus kaufmanni (false shovelnose sturgeon)