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184. Acipenser fulvescens Rafinesque. Lake sturgeon; Ohio sturgeon; Red 



sturgeon. 

 Mississippi Valley, Great Lakes and northward, ascending rivers, but 



not entering the sea; varying much with age. 

 Acipenser fulvescens Rafinesque, Amer. Month. Mag., I, August, 1817, 



288, Great Lakes. 

 Acipenser ruhicundus LevStienr, Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc, I, 1818, 388, 



Lakes Ontario, Erie, and all the upper lakes. 

 Acipenser maculosus LeSueur, loc. cit., 393, Ohio River; young. 

 Accipenser serotinus Rafinesque, Ichth. Ohiensis, 1820, 80, Ohio River. 

 Accipenser ohiensis Rafinesque, loc. cit., 81, Ohio River. 

 Accipenser macrostomus Rafinesque, loc. cit., 81, Ohio River. 

 Diiiectus truncatus Rafinesque^ loc. cit., 82; erroneous, based on a 



drawing by Audubon. 

 Acipenser rupertianus Richardson, Fauna Bor.-Amer., Ill, 1836, 311, 



Albany River, Rupert Land. 

 Acipenser laevis Agassiz, Lake Superior, 1850, 267; Lake Superior. 

 Acipenser carbonarius Agassiz, loc. cit., 271, Lake Superior. 

 Acipenser rhynchasus Agassiz, loc. cit., 276, Lake Superior. 

 Acipenser liopeltis Giinther, Cat. Fishes, VTII. 1870, 341, Mississippi. 

 Acipenser (Huso) copei Dum^ril, Hist. Nat. Poiss., 1870, 105 and 108, 



supposedly upper Missouri. 

 Acipenser (Huso) rauchi Dum^ril, loc. cit., 105 and 118, Osage River, Mo. 

 Acipenser {Huso) richardsoni Dum(5ril, loc. cit., 105 and 120, upper 



Mississippi. 

 Acipenser (Huso) anasimos Dum(5ril, loc. cit., 105 and 122, Missouri 



River at St. Louis. 

 Acipenser (Huso) paranasimos Dum^ril, loc. cit., 105 and 124, Hunts- 



ville, .Ala. 

 Acipenser (Huso) anthracinus Dumc'-ril, loc. cit., 105 and 126, Lake Erie. 

 Acipenser (Huso) megalaspis Dunicril, loc. cit., 105 and 133, Lake 



Champlain. 

 Acipenser (Huso) lamarii Dum<'>ril, loc. cit., 105 and 139. Mississippi 



River or Lake Erie. 

 Acipenser (Huso) atclaspis Dumcril, loc. cit.. 105 and 141, Saskatchewan 



River. 

 Acipenser (Huso) rafinesquii Dimu'ril, loc. cit., 105 and 143, Ohio River. 

 Acipenser (Huso) rosarium Dumcril, loc. cit., 105 and 152, Atlas, pi. 17, 



figs. 2 and 2a, upper Mississippi or Lake Eric. 

 Acipenser (Huso) platyrhinus Dumcril, loc. cit., 105 and 154, upper 



Mississippi or Lake Erie. 

 Acipenser (Huso) kirllaudi Dumt^'Hl, loc. cit., 105 and 161, Lake Erie. 

 Acipenser (Huso) nertinianus Dumi'ril, loc. cit., 105 and 162, Michigan. 

 Acipenser (Antaceus) Cincinnati Dum6ril, loc. cit., 220 and 228, Ohio 



River. 

 Acipenser (Antaceus) buffalo Dun)('ril, loc. cit., 220 and 231, Lake Erie, 



BufTalo. 



Genus 80. SCAPHIRHYNCHUS Heckel. Shovelnose sturgeons. 



ticaphirhynclnis llocktl, Ann. Wit-n. Mus. Naturg , I, 1835, 71 (S. 

 rafinesquei Heckel = .lcjpenser platnnjnchus Rafinesque); not Sca- 

 phorhynchus Maximilian, a genus of birds. 



Scaphirhynchops Gill, Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc, V, 1863, 12, 178 (Acipen- 

 ser platorynchus Rafinesque). 



185. Scaphirhynchus platorynchus (Rafinesque). Shovelnose sturgeon; 



Suilchtail; Haclchhack; Sinid sturgeon. 

 Mississippi Valley; common in the larger streams. 

 Acipenser platorynchus Rafincsfiuc, Ichth. Ohiensis, 1820, 80, Ohio 



River. 



Genus 81. PARASCAPHIRHYNCHUS Forbes and Richardson. 



Parascaphirhynchus Forbes and Richardson, liull. 111. Lab. Nat. Hist., 

 VI r. 1905, 38 (P. albns Forbes and Richard.son). 



186. Parascaphirhynchus albus Forbes and Richardson. White shovelnose 



sturgeon; White sturgeon, 

 Mississippi River; rare. 

 Parascaphirhynchus albus Forbes and Richardson, Bull. III. Lab. Nat 



Hist., VII,' 1905, 38, Mississippi River at Grafton, 111. 



