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Acipenser

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Ac`i`pen´ser
prop. n.1.(Zool.) A genus of ganoid fishes, including the sturgeons, having the body armed with bony scales, and the mouth on the under side of the head. See Sturgeon.
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Noun1.Acipenser - type genus of the Acipenseridae: sturgeonsAcipenser - type genus of the Acipenseridae: sturgeons
genus Acipenser
fish genus - any of various genus of fish
Acipenseridae, family Acipenseridae - sturgeons
Acipenser transmontanus, Pacific sturgeon, Sacramento sturgeon, white sturgeon - food and game fish of marine and fresh waters of northwestern coast of North America
Acipenser huso, beluga, hausen, white sturgeon - valuable source of caviar and isinglass; found in Black and Caspian seas
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The specimen was an Atlantic sturgeon, or Acipenser oxyrhynchus, which was thought to have been extinct in the Baltic Sea since the early 1900s due to overfishing.
Sturgeon reappears in Baltic after century absence by AFP / AFP Global Edition
Abstract--Significant fisheries for Chesapeake Bay Atlantic sturgeon, Acipenser oxyrinchus, have been absent for nearly a century, and there has been no evidence of recovery in the intervening years.
Dispersal and growth of yearling Atlantic sturgeon, Acipenser ... by Secor, David H.; Niklitschek, Edwin J.; Stevenson, Jill T.; Gunderson, Troy E.; Minkkinen, Steven P. / Fishery Bulletin
 
 
 
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