Animalia > Chordata > Acipenseriformes > Acipenseridae > Acipenser > Acipenser oxyrinchus

Acipenser oxyrinchus (Atlantic sturgeon)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Acipenser oxyrinchus is a species of sturgeon.
View Wikipedia Record: Acipenser oxyrinchus

Endangered Species

Status: Vulnerable
View IUCN Record: Acipenser oxyrinchus

Attributes

Adult Length [1]  8.758 feet (267 cm)
Brood Dispersal [1]  In the open
Brood Egg Substrate [1]  Phyto-lithophils
Brood Guarder [1]  No
Litter Size [1]  3,755,745
Maximum Longevity [1]  60 years
Migration [3]  Anadromous
Adult Weight [2]  446.218 lbs (202.40 kg)
Diet [3]  Carnivore
Female Maturity [1]  18 years

Protected Areas

Prey / Diet

Predators

Ichthyomyzon unicuspis (Silver lamprey)[4]

Consumers

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

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
♦ 4Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 5Gibson, 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