5 6 Memoir Sears Foundation for Marine Research 



Synonyms and American References : 5- 



Aclpenser oxyrhynchus Mitchill, Trans. Lit. philos. Soc. N.Y., I, 1814: 462 (descr., New York); DeKay, Zool. 

 N.Y., 4, 1842: 346 (descr.); Provancher, Nat. Canad., 8, 1876: 226 (genl. acct.) ; Smith, N.C. geol. 

 econ. Surv., 2, 1907: 57 (Albemarle Sd.); Hildebrand and Schroeder, Bull. U.S. Bur. Fish., 43, 1928: 

 72 (Chesapeake Bay); Breder, Field Bk. Mar. Fish. Atl. Cst., 1929: 42 (genl. acct.); Jordan, Manual 

 Vert. Anim. NE U.S., 1929: 32 (distr., key, brief descr.) ; Jordan, Evermann, and Clark, Rep. U.S. 

 Comm. Fish. (1928), 2, 1930: 34 (in checklist); Gowanloch, Fish. Fishing Louisiana, Bull. La. Conserv. 

 Dept., 23, I933"- 411 (mouth of Mississippi R.); Schrenkeisen, Field Bk. Freshw. Fish. N. Amer., 

 1938: 12 (genl. acct.); Vladykov and Beaulieu, Nat. Canad., 7J, 1946: 43 (detail, acct. of shields and gill 

 rakers, size, Quebec); Vladykov and Beaulieu, Nat. Canad., y8, 195 1". 129 (detail, acct. of gill rakers 

 for three w. Atlantic species); Rostlund, Univ. Calif Publ. Geogr., 9, 1952: 248 (import, to native In- 

 dians). 



Acifenser slurio Linnaeus,^' Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1758, 237 (descr., European seas); Ryder, Bull. U.S. Fish 

 Comm. (1888), 8, 1890: 232 (descr., Atlant. est.); Jordan and Evermann, Bull. U.S. nat. Mus., 47 (i), 

 1896:105 (descr., Atlant. cst.) ; Kendall, Occ. Pap. Boston Soc. nat. Hist., 7 (8), 1 908 : 1 6 (New England) ; 

 Kendall, Proc. Portland Soc. nat. Hist., J (i), 1914: 13 (Maine); Huntsman, Contr. Canad. Biol. (192 1), 

 J, 1922: 10 (58) (St. John R., head of Bay of Fundy); Bigelow and Welsh, Bull. U.S. Bur. Fish., 40 

 (i), 1925: 74 (descr., habits. Gulf of Maine); Borodin, Trans. Amer. Fish. Soc, 55, 1925: 184 (biol. 

 observ.); Nichols and Breder, Zoologica, N.Y., 9, 1927: 30 (size, distr. New England, New York); 

 Truitt, Bean, and Fowler, Bull. Md. Conserv. Dep., 3, 1929: 33 (Chesapeake Bay); Beebe and Tee- 

 Van, Field Bk. Shore Fish. Bermuda, 1933: 32 (2 recs. for Bermuda cited); Vladykov and McKen- 

 zie, Proc. N.S. Inst. Sci., ^9(1), 1935: 53 (genl. acct.); Jordan and Evermann, Amer. Food Game 

 Fish., 1937: 8 (genl. acct., key); Bigelow and Schroeder, Fish. Bull. (74) U.S. Fish Wildl. Serv., 53, 

 1953: 81 (descr., habits, Gulf of Maine). 



Acipenser sturio oxyrhynchus. Smith, Bull. U.S. Fish Comm. (1891), 1893: 190 (N.Carolina rivers: Pasquo- 

 tank, Edenton, and Roanoke); Halkett, Check List Fish. Canad., 191 3: 44 (distr.); Greeley, N.Y. Biol. 

 Surv. Lower Hudson Watershed (1936), 11, 1937: 89 (age determ., size ranges, Hudson R.); Bailey, 

 Biol. Surv. Merrimack Watershed, New Hampshire Fish Game Dept., 1938: 155 (former abund. 

 Merrimack R.). 



Acipenser cayennensis, Dumeril, Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. nat. Paris, j, 1867: 161 (descr.. River Oyapock 

 known as Cayenne, French Guiana; see ftn. 49). 



To the above Synonyms should be added several nominal specific names, which were given by Dumeril (27: 

 161-177; 28: 116-228) to specimens of ^. oxyrhynchus according to locality only: mitchilli (New 

 York), kennicotti (James R.), girardi (Maryland), macrohinus (New York), milberti (New York), bairdi 

 (Maryland), storeri (Boston), holbrooki (Charleston), and lecontei (New York). 



Acipenser oxyrhynchus desotoi Vladykov 1955 



Gulf of Mexico Sturgeon, Common Sturgeon 



Figure 3 



Study Material. Two specimens, 50 and 60 cm FL, obtained by T. Dawson be- 

 tween Twin and Rabbit islands at the mouth of Singing River, off Gautier, Missis- 

 sippi, November 30, 1953, CNHM 59803, 59804);^* 3 specimens (seen by V. D.V.), 

 from western coast of Florida (two from Cedar Keys, the other from Suwannee River), 

 UF collections. 



52. Among the references, we have omitted some early authors whose incomplete or erroneous descriptions of the 

 species are of little scientific value. 



53. European authors in general, such as d'Ancona (z), Berg (jj: 94), and others, consider the American form identi- 

 cal to the European A. sturio. 



54. Kindness of Loren P.Woods. These specimens served as the basis for the original description (S/: 2, pis. i, 3, 5, 7). 



