342 acipensebidjE. 



16. Acipenser mediorostris. 



Ayres, Proc. Calif. Ac, Nat. Sc. i. p. 15; Dumdril, Nouv. Arch. Mus. 

 1867, p. 167, pi. 13. fig. 2 '. 



Snout rather produced, about two-fifths of the length of the head ; 

 barbels short, simple. Osseous shields well developed ; 11 on the 

 back, 28 on the side, and about 10 along the abdomen. Skin with 

 numerous stellate ossifications, unequal in size. Anal Jin entirely 

 behind the dorsal. D. 36. 



California. 



17. Acipenser sturio. 



Sturgeon; 9tor; Esturgeon. 



a. Synonymy of examples of the Old World. 



? 'Ov'ktkos, Aristot. Hist. Anim. ; Athen. lib. viii. 



? Attilus, Plin. Hist. Nat. ix. c. 17 ; Handel, p. 173 ; Bellon. Be Aqiiat. 



p. 102; Willughby, p. 241, tab. P 7. fig. 2; Aldrov. v. p. 363; 



Jonston, tab. 28. fig. 4. 

 Sturio, Salvian. fol. 113, tab. 112 ; Willnghhij, p. 239, tab. P 7. 



fig. 3 ; Rondelet. p. 410 ; Gesner, Aqiutt. p. 73 ; Jonston, tab. 23. 



fig. 8. 

 Acipenser varus, Aldrovatid. iv. p. 527. 

 Acipenser, sp., Ariedi, Si/n. p. 91. no. 1, and Gen. p. 65. no. 1 ; Gi'onov. 



Mm. i. p. 60. no. 131, and Zoophyt. p. 39. no. 140. 

 Seha, iii. p. 101, tab. 29. fig. 19. 

 Acipenser sturio, L. Syst. Nat. i. p. 103; Bl. Fisch. Deuischl. iii. 



p. 89, tab. 88 ; £1. Schn. p. 347 ; Misso, Jchth. Nice, p. 56, and 



Eur. Merkl. iii. p. 106 ; Lacep. i. p. 411 ; Pennant, Brit. Zool. iii. 



p. 164, pi. 22 ; Donovan, Brit. Fish. pi. 55 ; Nardo, Prodr. Adr. 



Ichth. p. 10 ; Faber, Fische Islands, p. 46 ; Ekstrom, Fisch. MorkOy 



p. 118 ; Brandt 8f Batzeb. ii. pp. 17, 352, tab. 3. fig. 1 ; Fitz. 8f 



Meckel, Ann. Wicn. Mvs. i. p. 307, tab. 27. fig. 8, tab. 28. figs. 3 & 4 ; 



Bonap. Faun. Ital. Pesc. c. fig. ; Parnell, Fish. Firth of Forth, 



p. 243 ; Jenyns, Man. p. 493 ; Yarrell, Brit. Fish. ii. p. 476, or 3rd 



edit. ii. p. 442 ; Nilsson, Skand. Faun. Fisk. p. 699 ; Kroyer, Skand. 



Fisk. iii. p. 747 ; Jieckel^ Kner, Siissvasse>Jische,Tp. 362, with figs. ; 



Silys-Longchamps, Faune Beige, p. 185 ; Siebbld, Silsswasserfische, 



p. 363 ; Blanchard, Poiss. France, p. 605. 

 Sturgeon, Petmant, Brit. Zool. iii. p. 124, tab. 19 ; Couch, Fish, Brit, 



Jsl. i. p. 157, pi. 35 (bad). 

 Esturgeon, Duhamel, PecJics, iii. p. 221, pi. 1. 

 Acipenser lichtensteinii, Bl. Schn. p. 348, tab. 69 ; Brandt ^ Batzeb, 



ii. p. 21, tab. 2. fig. 1 (young) 

 latirostris, Parnell, Fish. Firth of Forth, p. 246, pi. 39 (head) ; 



or Trans. R. Soc. Edinb. xiv. pi. 4 (copied in Yarrell, Brit. Fish. 



3rd edit. ii. p. 460). 

 — ■ — thompsoni, Ball, in Thompson, Nat. Hisi. L-eland, iv. p. 245. 



liospitus, KroytT, Skand. Fisk. iii. p. 780. 



yarrcllii, Eumeril, Nouv. Arch. Mus. iii. p. 164. 



Anatomv : Rosenthal, IcJithyot. Taf. tab. 24 ; Monro, Bau d. Fisch. 



tab. 8'; Bar, in Meeker s Arch. 1826, p. 363 ; Brandt ^- Ratzeb. I.e. 



* The length of the snoui is cont;uncd twice unci one-third in the entire ligure 

 of tlif^ fish, and twice and two-thirds in that of the head! 



