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Acipenseridae
Shovelnose sturgeon
Scaphirhynchus platorynchus
One Hundred Eight Centimeters Sturgeon
- Temperate
- Upper river
- Northern Hemisphere
- Regional distribution
- Freshwater fish
- North America
- Elongated
- Large
- Temperate fish
Temperate
Regional distribution
Freshwater fish
Elongated
LargeShovelnose sturgeon is a freshwater fish from North America. It inhabits freshwater habitats. The largest recorded length is 108 cm.
- Family
- Acipenseridae
- Genus
- Scaphirhynchus
- Maximum length
- 108 cm
- Water
- Freshwater
- Body shape
- elongated
- Distribution
- North America: USA in Mississippi River basin from west Pennsylvania to Montana and south to Louisiana; Mobile Bay drainage, Alabama and Mississippi; upper Rio Grande, New Mexico.
- Conservation status
- VUVulnerable
Class
Family
Conservation status
