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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.
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.
The Shovelnose sturgeon is the only sturgeon that has been recorded in Kansas since 1998. Family Acipenseridae (Sturgeons) Lake sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens) (Ex) Pallid sturgeon (Scaphirhynchus albus) (Pe) Shovelnose sturgeon (Scaphirhynchus platorynchus) Family Polyodontidae (Paddlefish) American paddlefish (Polyodon spathula)
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 ...
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Pallid sturgeon, Scaphirhynchus albus [84] Shovelnose sturgeon, Scaphirhynchus platorynchus [85] The three types of sturgeon native to Arkansas are uncommon, and two of the species are listed as endangered nationwide. The lake sturgeon is near the southern end of its range in Arkansas, more commonly found in the Upper Midwest. [86]