1056 



SCANDINAVIAN FISHES. 



(ireeks the genus bore the names of EUop.^", Antaceus'', j mius'' is tlie same as the Scandinavian stoy (crreat), hut 



and several others, the application of which is, howevci-, according to Gesner" sliould be derived from the Teutonic 



disputed. In mediaeval times tlie name of Stitiio was i^torcn (to root, stir u]) the bottom), a reference to tlie 



coined from the Teutonic Stncr, whicli according to Won- method ])ractised l)v the Sturgeons in procuring their food. 



THE STURGEON (sw. storen). 



Acii'KXSKi; sxriiio. 



Pliilo XLVl. tig. 1. 



Dorsal bucklers mesocentrir {/ritli the boss iippernmsf in tlie m'i<hJJe. ainJ sUqnnff forirards (Did bnckirards). Xuiti- 

 ber of plates in the upper liderul roir as a ride less than 37'. Lei/i;fli of the snout abont ', ., {68' — 42 %) of 

 that of the head, ivhich occupies about 27 — 20 % of that of tlie body. Width of the mouth, which, when pro- 

 truded, is square with rounded angles, at most about ' , of tlie breadth of the snout at the barbels. Barbels 

 terete, simple (not fimbriated"), and shorter than the distance betireen them and the anterior inari/in of the month. 

 Base of the dorsal fin less than 'i^ of the length of the bodg. Length of the pectorals less than ' ^ of the 

 distance betireen the rentrals and the tip of the snout. 



R. Ij 

 V. 26—27(30); C. 



0; D. 30—40(44); A. 23- 

 26 — 29 super. 

 iO — 100 infer. 



'26(.30); P. 36—40(42); 



pi. I, p. 286. 



54. tab. XXVIII, 



toin. I, ]i. 237; 

 Fisrti. DenlsM.. 



Acipenser sive Sturio, Sohonev., Ichttiiiol. S/esr. Hols., p. !1. 



Stwio, WiLLUGHB., Hist. Pise, p. 329. tab. P. 7, fig. 3. 



Acipenser corpore tuberculis spinosis aspero, Art., Itlit/ii/ol 

 Gen., p. 6,5; Synon., p. 91; LiN., Fna Suec, c-fl. I, p. 101 

 It. Scan., p. 187. 



Haae-aterje (Sturio), StrSm, Sondm. Besl-r. 



Styrin, Olafs., Reise Tsl., pi. II, p. 711. 



Acipenser enroptrtis, Lin., Mils. Ad. Frid., p 

 fig. 2. 



Acipenser Sturio, Lin., Syst. Nat., ed. X 

 Mull.. Zool. Dan. Prodr., p. 39; Bl.. 

 pt. Ill, p. 89. tab. LXXXVIII; Retz., Fna Snec. Lin., 

 p. 309; Ekste., Vot. Akad. Handl. 1831, p. 104; NiLss., 

 Prodr. Iclithijol. Scaiul, p. 109; But, Ratzeb., Medic. 

 Zool., vol. II, pp. 17 ei 352, t.ib. Ill, fig. 1 et M—S : 

 Parn., Mem. Wern. Nat. Hist 800., vol. VII, p. 403; Bonap., 

 Fna Ital.. Pesc. (torn. Ill, ■•). tab. 129, fig. 1; Yarr., Hist. 

 Brit. Fvl,., vol. U, p. 47.") et Suppl. (Rioh.\rds.) II, p. 7; 

 Kr., Damn. Fisk.. vol. Ill, 2, p. 747; NiLSS., Skand. Fna, 

 Fish-., p. 699; Hckl, Kn., Siisstvasserf. Ostr. >/oh., p. 362; 

 Mqrn, Finl. Fiskfna (disp. Helsiugf. 1863), p. 70; Malm, 

 Gbgs Vet. Vitl. Sanih. Haudl., Ny Tidsf., H. VIII (1863), 

 p. 102; Steind., Stzber. Akad. Wise. Wien, Math. Naturw. 

 CI., LIII, I (1866), p. 204; v. Bkmm. in Herkl., Bouwst. 

 Fna Nederl., torn. Ill, p. 318; Lindstr., Gotl. Fisk., Gotl. 

 L. Hush. Sallsk. Arsber. 1866, p. 24 (sep.): DOM., Hist. 



Poiss. (N. Su. a BufiE.), torn. H, p. 184; (^thr. Vat. Brit. 



.\f,is.. Fis/,., vol. VIII, p. 342; Coll.. Forh. Vid. Selsk. 



Chrnia 1874, Tilla>gsh., p. 205; 1879, No. 1. p. 102; N. 



Mag. Naturv. Chrnia, Bd 29 (1884), p. 11,5; Malm, Gbgs, 



Boh. Fna, p. 604; Winth., Naturh. Tidskr. Kblivn, ser. 3, 



vol. XII, p. 55: Fedpers.. ibid., p. 93; MoR., Hist. Nat. 



Poiss. Fr., toiu. I, p. 471; Bncke, Fiscli., Fisetier., Fiscli:. 



0., W. Preuss., p. 191; Id. in M. v. d. Borne, Handh. 



Fiscliz., Fisclier., p. 181; Doderl., Man., Ittiol. Medit.. pt. 



II, fasc. I. p. 6; .Iord.. Gilb.. Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 16, 



p. 85; Mela, Vert. Fcnn., p. 362, tab. X; MOe., Hcke, Fiscli. 



Osts., p. 149: Day. Fish. Gt. Brit., frel, vol. II, p. 280, 



tab. CL; LiLLJ., Sc, Xory. Fisk.. vol. Ill, p. 488. 

 Acipenser Lichteiisteinii. Bl., Schn., Si/st. IchtlnjoL, p. 34f<. 



tab. 69; Bdt, Ratzeb.. 1. c.. pp. 21 et 352, tab. II, fig. I. 

 Acipenser o.ryrhjnclms, Mitch., Trans. Lit., Phil. Soc. N. York, 



vol. I, p. 462 {+ ■} Acip. sturio, p. 461 = .4n7i. imv- 



rostrum. Lesueub, Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. vol. I, p. 390); 



Dek., .V. York Fna. pt. IV, p. 346. tab. LVIII, tig. 18<l; 



SroR., Mem. Am. Acad. Arts, Sc, vol. VIII, p 431, tab. 



XXXV, fig. 4; DOM., 1. c, p. 106. 

 Acipenser laiirostris, Parn., 1. c, p. 405, tab. XXXIX. 

 Acipenser huso. Thomps., .\nn. Mag. Nat. Hist., vol. XX, 1847, p. 



172; SuNDEv.. Ofvers. Vet. Akad. Forh. 1853, p. 228. NccLinne. 

 Acipenser Thompsonii, Ball, Proc. Irish Acad., No. 25, p. 21; 



Thomps., Nat. Hist. Irel, vol. IV, p. 245. 

 Acipenser liospitus, Kr., 1. c. p. 780. 

 Acipenser sturioidcs. Malm, Gbgs Sandi. Handl.. 1. c, |i. 10** ; 



Gbgs, Boh. Fna, p. 605. 



cap]). 13 et 15. 



" 'EXXoip, Aristot., Zool., lib. II, 



'' Herodot., Hist., lib. IV, cap. 53. 



" Cf. Chakleton, Onomasi. Zoic, p. 152. 



'' De Aguat., p. 932. 



' The specimen described by Richardson, (in Yarr., /h-it. Fish., ed. 2, Sii|ipl. II, p. 21) from the Free Kirk College of Edinhiirgli, 

 with 38 plates in the upper lateral row on the right side and 40 on the left, has been shown by Gl'ntheu to belong to tjie American spe- 

 cies Acipenser rubicundns, which may thus be assumed to have strayed into European waters. But Day (Fish. Gt. Brit., Irel., vi'l. 11, p. 

 279) questions the Scottish origin of the specimen. Malm counted in a Swedish specimen 38 plates in the said row. 



^ In a young specimen — probably an exceptional case — 57 '.i, according to Kroyer. 



" In old Sturgeons, however, the barbels are sometimes broader, compressed, and more or less distinctly timbriated. 



