On the Pee. 



Sub-class — Ganoidei. 

 Order II. 

 CHONDROSTEI. 



Family 

 ACIPENSERinJE. 



^TURGEON. 

 [Acipciiscr sticrio.) • 



Attilus, Gesner, De Aquatil. p. log; Willughby, Hist. Pise. p. 241, 



tab. P. 7, fig. 3. 

 Sturio, Gesner, De Aquatil. p. 931; Willughby, Hist. Pise. p. 239. 



Acipenser corpore hiber cults spinosis exasperalo, Artedi, Spec. Pise. p. 91, No. i. 

 Acipenser s/iin'o, LiN., Sys. Nat., i. p. 103; Lacep., i. p. 411; Donovan, Brit. Fish. 



pi. 65; Parnell, Mem. Warn. Soe. vii. p. 403; Jenyns' Man. p. 493; 



Fleming, Hist. Anim. p. 173; Yarrell, ii. p. 475; Siebold, 



Siisserwasserf. p. 363; Gdnther'.s Cat. viii. p. 342. 

 Sturgeon, Pennant, Brit. Zool. iii. p. 164, ed. 1812; Couch, Fish. Brit. Isl. i. 



p. 157, pi. 35. 

 Acipenser latiroslris, Parnell, Mem. Wern. Soc. vii. p. 405 ; Yarrell, ii. p. 479. 



Characters of the Genus Acipenser. — "The rows of osseus scutes not confluent on the tail. Spiracles present. 

 Caudal rays surrounding the extremity of the tail. Inhabitants of the temperate and arctic regions of the northern 

 hemisphere, periodically entering rivers. Some species entirely confined to fresh water. The geographical distribution 

 of the Sturgeons is nearly identical with that of SalmoV — GDnther. 



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