A Comparison of Atlantic Sea Sturgeon with a New Subspecies from the Gulf of Mexico (Acipenser oxyrhynchus de sotoi)
- 1 May 1955
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Canadian Science Publishing in Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada
- Vol. 12 (5) , 754-761
- https://doi.org/10.1139/f55-040
Abstract
The sea sturgeon, Acipenser oxyrhynchus Mitchill, occurs in the western north Atlantic Ocean from Canadian waters south to the Gulf of Mexico. Specimens taken from eastern Florida to Quebec are assigned to the typical subspecies oxyrhynchus, while 2 specimens from off Mississippi are here described as the new subspecies de sotoi. The latter differs in having a longer head, longer pectoral fins, strongly developed scutes of distinctive shape and an unusually long spleen.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: