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15. Acipenser latirostris. The Broad-nosed Sturgeon. 



Acipenser latirostris, Parn. Trans. R. S. xiv. pi. 4. Parn. Fish 

 of Forth. Wern. Mem. vii. p. 405, pi. 39. Yarr. Brit. Fish 

 2ed. ii. p. 479, 1841. 



Hab. — North Seas. 



a. Plates of the head. Berwick-upon-Tweed. Presented by Dr. 

 Johnston. 



5. Dorsal-plates iu front and behind sloping, very high in the 

 middle, ending in a point. Skin rough, spotted over with spiny 

 bony scales. Cirrhi compressed, ribband-shaped, clothed. Lower 

 lip not continuous, or with rudiments only of a lip in each angle of 

 the mouth. — Huso. 



Huso, Fitz. 8r Heckle, Ann. Wien. Mus. i. 270. 

 Husones, Brandt 4' Ratz. Med. Zool. i. 349. 



16. Acipenser brevirostris. The Round-nosed Sturgeon. 



Huso brevirostris, Fitz. Sr Heckle, Ann. Wien. Mus. p. 313, 1836 



^0. 

 Sturio, Buck. Nat. Hist. Car. p. 236. Forst. Phil. Trans, lxiii. p. 



150. Forst. Beit, zur Volk. Sr Lander, b. iii. s. 259. 

 Acipenser Huso, Aus New York, Mus. Block. 

 Acipenser Sturio (Round-nosed Sturgeon). Mitch. Trans. Phil. 



Soc. Neiv York, i. p. 461. 

 Acipenser brevirostrum, and varieties, Lesueur, Trans. Amer. Phil. 



Soc. (N. S. i. 390). Rafin. Ichth. Ohi. p. 79. 

 Acipenser brevirostris, Cuv. Reg. An. ed. 2, t. ii. p. 380, Note. 



Brandt $■ Ratz. Med. Zonl. b. ii. s. 13, Note, taf. 1, f. 2, G. 



De Kay, Nat. Hist. New York, pt. 2 (Zool.), p. 345, 1842. 

 Acipenser marginatus, Rafin. Ichth. Ohi. p. 79. 

 Acipenser hudsonius, Rafin. Ichth. Ohi. p. 79. 

 Acipenser atlanticus, Rafin. Ichth. Ohi. p. 79. 

 Acipenser maculatus, Canada, Vaiietas Husonis, Reis. Pise. Aquar. 



Hung. p. 91, Note. 

 Acipenser obtusirostris, Lovet. Nouv. Mem. Mosc. t. iii. p. 257. 



Hab. — N. America. 



a. Stufl'ed. N. America. Presented by Edward Doubleday, Esq. 



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