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Acipenser brevirostrum Fishing for sturgeon was a common practice among Native Americans and settlers who arrived along the East Coast of North America. The shortnose sturgeon ( Acipenser brevirostrum ) is a small and endangered species of North American sturgeon .
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.
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)
Genus Acipenser Linnaeus, 1758 †Acipenser albertensis Lambe 1902 > Acipenser baerii J. F. Brandt, 1869 (Siberian sturgeon) Acipenser baerii baicalensis A. M. Nikolskii, 1896 (Baikal sturgeon) Acipenser baerii stenorrhynchus A. M. Nikolskii, 1896; Acipenser brevirostrum Lesueur, 1818 (Shortnose sturgeon)
Shortnose sturgeon (Acipenser brevirostrum) Lake sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens) Green sturgeon (Acipenser medirostris) Atlantic sturgeon (Acipenser oxyrinchus) White sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus)
Shortnose sturgeon (Acipenser brevirostrum) Atlantic sturgeon (Acipenser oxyrhinchus) Suckers (Catostomidae. Quillback (Carpiodes cyprinus)
Crow's Nest is surrounded on three sides by a freshwater-tidal estuary, and a multitude of resident and spawning fish thrive in these waters. Local fishermen captured the shortnose sturgeon (Acipenser brevirostrum), a federally listed endangered fish, twice in 2002. A variety of marine fossils have been found on the shores of Crow's Nest.
Holiday darter (Etheostoma brevirostrum) Ashy darter (Etheostoma cinereum) Golden darter (Etheostoma denoncourti) Etowah darter (Etheostoma etowahae) Barrens darter (Etheostoma forbesi) Rio Grande darter (Etheostoma grahami) Tuxedo darter (Etheostoma lemniscatum) Spotted darter (Etheostoma maculatum) Niangua darter (Etheostoma nianguae)