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  2. Acipenseriformes - Wikipedia

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    Acipenseriformes / æ s ɪ ˈ p ɛ n s ə r ɪ f ɔːr m iː z / is an order of basal [1] ray-finned fishes that includes living and fossil sturgeons and paddlefishes (Acipenseroidei), as well as the extinct families Chondrosteidae and Peipiaosteidae. [2] [3] [4] They are the second earliest diverging group of living ray-finned fish after the ...

  3. Acipenser - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Chondrostei - Wikipedia

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    Chondrostei is a subclass of non-neopterygian ray-finned fish.While the term originally referred to the paraphyletic grouping of all non-neopterygian ray-finned fish, it was redefined by Patterson in 1982 to be a clade comprising the Acipenseriformes (which includes sturgeon and paddlefish) and their extinct relatives.

  5. Category:Acipenseriformes - Wikipedia

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    The Acipenseriformes are ray-finned fishes in order Acipenseriformes. This category contains subcategories corresponding to the families in this order. Subcategories.

  6. Chondrosteidae - Wikipedia

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    Fossil of Chondrosteus acipenseroides from Lyme Regis Strongylosteus hindenburgi fossil from Posidonia Shale, Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart. Chondrosteidae / ˌ k ɒ n d r oʊ s t i ˈ aɪ d iː / is a family of extinct marine actinopterygian fishes, known from the Early Jurassic of Europe.

  7. Siberian sturgeon - Wikipedia

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    The Siberian sturgeon (Acipenser baerii) is a species of sturgeon in the family Acipenseridae.It is most present in all of the major Siberian river basins that drain northward into the Kara, Laptev and East Siberian Seas, including the Ob, Yenisei (which drains Lake Baikal via the Angara River) Lena, and Kolyma Rivers.

  8. Peipiaosteidae - Wikipedia

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    Peipiaosteidae is an extinct family of fish, known from the Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous of Asia. They are members of Acipenseriformes, related to sturgeons (Acipenseridae) and paddlefish (Polyodontidae).

  9. White sturgeon - Wikipedia

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    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.