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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 (Nipissing District), a lake in northeastern Ontario, in Nipissing District; Sturgeon Lake (Ontario), a lake in southern Ontario in the Kawartha Lakes region; Sturgeon Lake Caldera, a caldera in northwestern Ontario; Sturgeon Lake (Rainy River District), a lake of the Hunter Island region of Quetico Provincial Park, northwestern ...
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 [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.
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] Located within the Sauvie Island Wildlife Area , the lake is a critical habitat within the Pacific Flyway for migratory waterfowl, hosting over 200,000 birds annually.
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.
The Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation (Cree: ᓇᒣᐢ ᓵᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ, namês sâkahikan [2]) is a First Nations band government or "band", part of the Cree ethnic group, a member of the Western Cree Tribal Council, and a party to Treaty 8. The band controls three Indian reserves, the large Sturgeon Lake 154 and the smaller 154A and 154B. [3]