Acipenser transmontanus Richardson 1837
Acipenser transmontanus Richardson, 1837. White Sturgeon . Perhaps to 6 m (20 ft) FL (Moyle 2002). Moyle notes that the largest length records for this species were made before 1900 and “were subject to inaccurate measurements and exaggerated reporting.” Moyle also notes the largest recent record, f...
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| Summary: | Acipenser transmontanus Richardson, 1837. White Sturgeon . Perhaps to 6 m (20 ft) FL (Moyle 2002). Moyle notes that the largest length records for this species were made before 1900 and “were subject to inaccurate measurements and exaggerated reporting.” Moyle also notes the largest recent record, from Oregon, was 3.2 m (10.5 ft) long. Northern Gulf of Alaska (Mecklenburg et al. 2002) to Bahía de Todos Santos, northern Baja California (Ruiz-Campos et al. 2011). Depth: to 122 m (400 ft) at sea (Miller and Lea 1972). Anadromous. : Published as part of Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, pp. 1-285 in Zootaxa 5053 (1) on page 31, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008 : {"references": ["Moyle, P. B. (2002) Inland Fishes of California. Revised and Expanded. University of California Press, Berkeley.", "Ruiz-Campos, G., Castro-Aguirre, J. L. & Garcia de Leon, F. J. (2011) First specimen of the white sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus Richardson, 1836) in coastal waters of Mexico with data on its genetic identify. California Fish Game, 97, 36 - 42.", "Miller, D. J. & Lea, R. N. (1972) Guide to the coastal marine fishes of California. California Department of Fish and Game Fish Bulletin, 157."]} |
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