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COMMON STURGEON. Class IV. 



GENUS XI. STURGEON. 



Aperture one narrow on each side. 

 Mouth placed far below, tubular and without 



teeth. 

 Body long, and often angular, 



1. Common. Oviffxos. Athen.Lib. viii. 315. 



'AKKiirv]<rtos ? Allien. p. 2Q4. 

 Acipenser? Plinii Lib. ix. c. 



17. Ovidii Halieut. ? 

 L'Esturgeon. Belon, 89. 

 Acipenser. Rondel. 410. Ges- 



ner pise. 2. 

 Sturio. Gesner pise. 

 Stoer. Schonevelde, 9. 

 Sturgeon. Wit. Ichth. 239- 



Raii Syn. pise. 1 12. 

 Schirk. Kram. 383. 

 Acipenser corpore tuberculis 



spinosis exasperato. Arted. 



Syn. 91. 



Acipenser Sturio. Lin. Syst. 



403. Gm. Lin. 1483. Mus. 



Ad. Fred. 54. tab. 18. Jig. 



2. 

 Stor. Faun. Suec. No. 299. 

 Seb. Mus. iii. 101. tab. 2Q. 



No. 19. 

 L'Esfurgeon. Block ichth. iii. 



80. tab. 88. 

 LAcipensere esturgeon. De 



la Cepede Hist, des Pois- 



sons, i. 411. tab. 20. Jig. 1. 

 /{/•c/. Zoo/, ii. 356. 



X HAT this is the 'Ovio-xos of Dorion, as quoted 

 by Athenceus, is very probable, as well from the 

 account he gives of its form, as of its nature. 

 He says its mouth is always open, in which it 

 agrees with the Sturgeon, and that it conceals 



