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STURGEON. 



Class IV, 



VIIL STUR- One narrow aperture on each fide. 

 GEON. , 



The mouth placed far below, tubular and without 



teeth. 



The body long, and often angular. 



53. Stur- 

 geon. 



Ovktko;. Athen. Lib. VIII. 

 315. A'tiJii7rn<nos ? Athen. p. 



2 94- 

 Acipenfer? Plinii Lib. IX. 



c. 17. Gvidii Halieut : ? 

 L' Efturgeon. Belon, 89. 

 Acipenfer. Rondel 410. Gef- 



7ier pifc. 2. 

 Sturio. Gefner pifc. 

 Stoer. Schoncvelde, 9. 

 Sturgeon. Wil. Iclh. 239. 



Rati fyn. pifc. 112. 

 Schirk. Kram 383. 

 Acipenfer corpore tuberculi? 

 fpinofis exafperato. Art ed. fyn. 



V- 



Acipenfer flurio. Lin. fyft* 

 403. Muf Ad. Fred. 54.. 

 Tab. 18. /£. 2. 



Stor. Faun. Suec. No. 299. 



Seb. Muf. III. 101. Tab. 29. 

 No. 19. 



THAT this is the 'Owo-zw; of Dorion, as quo- 

 ted by Atbenceus^ is very probable, as well 

 from the account he gives of its form, as of its na- 

 ture. He fays its mouth is always open, with 

 which it agrees with the Sturgeon, and that it con- 

 ceals itfelf in the hot months : this mews it to be a 

 fifli of a cold nature, which is confirmed by the 

 hiftory of the European filh of this fpecies, given 

 by Mr. Forfter*, in his Eflay on' the Volga, who 

 relates that they are fcarce ever found in that river 



* Phil Tranf. LVII. 352, 



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