1976. Biology of the shortnose sturgeon (Acipenser 

 breuirostrum) in the St. John River estuary, New 

 Brunswick, Canada. Trans. Atl. Chap. Can. Soc. 

 Environ. Biol. Annu. Meet. 1975:20-72. 



Information on growth, length-weight relation- 

 ships, food, fecundity, population estimates, 

 and migrations. 



DAHLBERG, M. 



1975. Guide to coastal fishes of Georgia and nearby 

 states. Univ. Georgia Press, Athens, 186 p. 



A brief description and range of the shortnose 

 sturgeon and a note that it is commonly caught 

 in gill nets in the Altamaha River. 



DEAN, B. 



1894. Recent experiments in sturgeon hatching on 

 the Delaware River. Bull. U.S. Fish Comm. 

 13:335-339. 



Fish size is not mentioned, some shortnose stur- 

 geon may have been used in the experiments. 



1895. Fishes, living and fossil. An outline of their 

 forms and probable relationships. Macmillan 

 and Co., N.Y., 161 p. 



A review of the internal and external anatomy 

 of Acipenser is given. Acipenser breuirostrum 

 is included in the classification. 



DEES, L. T. 



1961. Sturgeons. 

 Leafl. 526, 8 p. 



U.S. Fish Wildl. Serv., Fish. 



A review of the general life history and commer- 

 cial value of sturgeons along with a brief 

 description and more specific life history of each 

 species, including the shortnose sturgeon. 



DeKAY, J. E. 



1842. Zoology of New York or the New York fauna. 

 Part HI. Reptiles and Amphibia. Albany, N.Y., 

 415 p. 



The description given by LeSueur agrees with 

 the Hudson River species. DeKay had seen it 

 also in the markets of Norfolk, Va. 



DIVISION OF LANDS AND FORESTS AND FISH 

 AND GAME (New York). 



1913. Third annual report of the conservation com- 

 mission. J. B. Lyon Co., Albany, N.Y., 366 p. 



Snails make up a large part of the food of the 

 shortnose sturgeon in one of the ponds at the 

 Linlithgo Hatchery. 



DUMERIL, A. 



1867. Prodrome d'une monographie des estur- 

 geons et description des especes de l'Amerique du 

 Nord qui appartienment au sous genre Anta- 

 ceus. Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat., Paris, p. 131- 

 188. 



Notes are presented on the general characters, 

 distribution, and other points of sturgeon 

 natural history. He adopts six subgenera, with 

 Huso, Acipenser, and Antaceus forming a group 

 "Mesocentres." 



1870. Histoire naturelle des poissons ou 

 ichthyologie generate. Tome II. Ganoides, Dipnes, 

 Lophobranches. Librairie Encyclopedique de 

 Roret, Paris, p. 170-173. 



The shortnose sturgeon is described. 



EDDY, S. 



1957. How to know the freshwater fishes. Wm. C. 

 Brown Co., Dubuque, Iowa, 286 p. 



A brief description and range of the shortnose 

 sturgeon is given. 



EVERMANN, B. W., and B. A. BEAN. 



1896. Indian River and its fishes. Rep. U.S. 

 Comm. Fish. 1897:227-248. 



The shortnose sturgeon is recorded from the In- 

 dian River. 



EVERMANN, B. W., and W. C. KENDALL. 

 1900. Check-list of the fishes of Florida. 

 U.S. Comm. Fish. 1899:35-103. 



Rep. 



The occurrence of sturgeons in Florida is cited 

 in three references: St. John's River as Acipen- 

 ser sp. (Goode 1879), Key West as Acipenser sp. 

 (Jordan 1884), and Indian River as Acipenser 

 brevirostris (Evermann and Bean 1896). 



1902. An annotated list of the fishes known to oc- 

 cur in the St. Lawrence River. Rep. U.S. Comm. 

 Fish. 1901:217-225. 



The occurrence of the shortnose sturgeon in the 

 St. Lawrence is erroneously cited in two 

 references: in the St. Lawrence and streams 

 flowing into it (Fortin 1864) and in the St. 

 Lawrence and lacs St. Pierre, St. Louis, and St. 

 Froid (Montpetit 1897). 



FEGELY, T. 



1977. Taking a closer look: Pennsylvania's endan- 

 gered cold-blooded animals. Pa. Angler 

 46(12):4-5. 



