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Acipenser brevirostrum (Short-nosed little sturgeon; Shortnose sturgeon; Pinkster)

Synonyms: Acipenser brevirostris
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Wikipedia Abstract

The shortnose sturgeon (Acipenser brevirostrum) is a small North American sturgeon which can be found in 16 to 19 large river and estuary systems along the Atlantic seaboard from the Saint John River in New Brunswick, Canada, to the St. Johns River in Florida, United States. Populations may be disjunct, evidenced by lack of records in the sea outside the influence of their home river and minimal captures of tagged individuals outside the river in which they were tagged.
View Wikipedia Record: Acipenser brevirostrum

Endangered Species

Status: Vulnerable
View IUCN Record: Acipenser brevirostrum

Attributes

Adult Length [1]  4.69 feet (143 cm)
Brood Dispersal [1]  In the open
Brood Egg Substrate [1]  Litho-pelagophils
Brood Guarder [1]  No
Gestation [2]  13 days
Litter Size [1]  120,000
Maximum Longevity [1]  67 years
Migration [3]  Anadromous
Adult Weight [2]  20.558 lbs (9.325 kg)
Diet [3]  Carnivore
Female Maturity [1]  15 years 6 months

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Fort Matanzas National Monument III 269 Florida, United States
George Washington Memorial Parkway V   Virginia, United States

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Frimpong, E.A., and P. L. Angermeier. 2009. FishTraits: a database of ecological and life-history traits of freshwater fishes of the United States. Fisheries 34:487-495.
♦ 2de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 3Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 4Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0