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.
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this genus are recognized: Scaphirhynchus albus (S. A. Forbes & R. E. Richardson, 1905) (pallid sturgeon) Scaphirhynchus platorynchus (Rafinesque, 1820)...
Genus Scaphirhynchus Heckel, 1835 (native to North America) Scaphirhynchus albus (Forbes & R. E. Richardson, 1905) (Pallid sturgeon) Scaphirhynchus platorynchus...
pallid sturgeon (Scaphirhynchus albus), with which shovelnose sturgeon are sympatric. Phelps, Q.; Webb, M. (2022). "Scaphirhynchus platorynchus". IUCN...
shovelnose sturgeon (Scaphirhynchus platorynchus), which is still relatively common, and the critically endangered Alabama sturgeon (Scaphirhynchus suttkusi), which...
The Alabama sturgeon (Scaphirhynchus suttkusi) is a species of sturgeon native to the United States of America and now only believed to exist in 130 miles...
paraphyletic, containing all sturgeons that do not belong to Huso, Scaphirhynchus, or Pseudoscaphirhynchus, with many species more closely related to...
They have a relatively long, broad and flattened snout, somewhat like Scaphirhynchus of North America. Little is known about the behavior of Pseudoscaphirhynchus...
eastern portions of the Gulf of Mexico. Three sturgeon species in genus Scaphirhynchus share river territory with the Gulf sturgeon; none of the other sturgeon...
Acipenser Linnaeus, 1758 Genus Huso J. F. Brandt & Ratzeburg, 1833 Genus Scaphirhynchus Heckel, 1835 Genus Pseudoscaphirhynchus Nikolskii, 1900 Most living...
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