Scaphirhynchinae

Updated on Oct 21, 2023

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Kingdom Animalia Phylum Chordata Order Acipenseriformes		Class Actinopterygii Rank Subfamily

Similar Pseudoscaphirhynchus, Acipenseriformes, Dwarf sturgeon, Syr Darya sturgeon, Amu Darya sturgeon

Scaphirhynchinae is a subfamily of sturgeon which includes two genera comprising a total of six species.

Genus Scaphirhynchus Heckel, 1835 (native to North America)

Scaphirhynchus albus (Forbes & R. E. Richardson, 1905) (Pallid sturgeon)

Scaphirhynchus platorynchus (Rafinesque, 1820) (Shovelnose sturgeon)

Scaphirhynchus suttkusi J. D. Williams & Clemmer, 1991 (Alabama sturgeon)

Genus Pseudoscaphirhynchus Nikolskii, 1900 (native to Central Asia)

Pseudoscaphirhynchus fedtschenkoi (Kessler, 1872) (Syr Darya sturgeon)

Pseudoscaphirhynchus hermanni (Kessler, 1877) (Dwarf sturgeon)

Pseudoscaphirhynchus kaufmanni (Kessler, 1877) (Amu Darya sturgeon

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