16 FAUNA OF NEW ENGLAND. 



TELEOSTOMI. CHONDROSTEI. 



ACIPENSERIDAE. 



33. ACIPEXSER STURIO Liiine. 

 Common sturgeon. 



Linne, Syst. nat., ed. 10, 1758, vol. 1, p. 237. "MARI EUROPAEO." 

 Jordan & Evermann, Bull. 47, U. S. nat. mus., 1896, pt. 1, p. 105; 

 1900, pt. 4, pi. 20, fig. 45. 



Acipenser oxyrhinchus Mitchill. Storer, Mem. Amer. acad., 

 1863, vol. 8, p. 431, pi. 35, fig. 4. 



ME. Kennebec River (Storer 1863) ; Androscoggin River 

 (Atkins 1887); Cathance River, tributary of Kennebec (Kendall 

 coll. 1901); Penobscot River and Bay (Evermann 1903). 



MASS. Charles River at Watertown (Storer 1839); Deer 

 Island (Storer 1842); outside Boston Harbor; Truro (B. S. N. H.); 

 Provincetown (Storer 1863); Waquoit (Lyman 1872); Merrimac 

 River at Lawrence (Goode & Bean 1879); Monomoy (Kendall 

 coll. 1896); Menemsha Bight; Woods Hole (Baird 1873 and Smith 

 1898); Nantucket (Sharp & Fowler 1904). 



R. I. Narragansett Bay (R. I. Fish comm. 1899); off Sakon- 

 net; off Quonset; Block Island (Tracy 1906). 



Coxx. Long Island Sound (Linsley 1844). 



34. ACIPEXSER RUBICUXDUS LeSueur. 



Lake sturgeon; Stone sturgeon; Rock sturgeon. 



LeSueur, Trans. Amer. philos. soc., 1818, vol. 1, p. 388, pi. 12. 

 " LAKES OXTARIO, ERIE, AXD ALL THE UPPER LAKES." Jordan 

 & Evermann, Bull. 47, U. S. nat. mus., 1896, pt. 1, p. 106; 1900, 

 pt. 4, pi. 21, fig. 46. 



VT. Lake Champlain (Thompson 1842; Evermann & Kendall 

 1894); (Storer 1842). 



35. ACIPEXSER BREVIROSTRUM LeSueur. 

 Short-nose sturgeon. 



LeSueur, Trans. Amer. philos. soc., 1818, vol. 1, p. 390. "DELA- 



