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call the young ''mamoose" or "mamouche." Formerly the stur- 

 geon seems to have been more abundant and it was a common 

 occurrence to see them "jump." As late as 1890 frequently four 

 or five large examples were taken during a single day in a large 

 seine. These would run about 150 pounds. The heads were 

 mostly cut off and allowed to rot on the river shore. In the bay 

 about Cape May as many as three have been taken recently in one 

 day. Mr. Wm. J. Fox found them at Sea Isle City. 



Acipenser sturio Abbott, Nat. Rambles, 1885, p. 479. — Ryder, 

 Bull. U. S. F. Com., VIII, 1888, pp. 235, 242, 266.— Bean, Bull. 

 Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., IX, 1897, p. 331. 



Acipenser. oxyrinchus Le Sueur, Tr. Am. Philos. Soc. Phila., 

 I, 1818, p. 394. 



Acipeiiiser oxyrhynchns Abbott, Geol. N. J., 1868, p. 828. 



Acipenser sturio oxyrhynchns Smith, Bull. U. S. F. Com., XII, 

 1892, p. 369. 



Acipenser brevirostrum Le Sueur. 



Short Nosed Sturgeon. Blunt Nosed Sturgeon. 



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Short Nosed Sturgeon. Acipenser brevirostrum Le Sueur. 



Body elongated. Head 5 in total, large, convex, variable, in 

 some short in proportion to its breadth and depressed between 

 eyes. Snout short, pointed. Pupil of eye rounded. Barbels 4, 

 flat, in pairs, and nearer nostrils than end of snout. Nostrils near 

 eyes, lower and posterior larger than anterior which is almost 

 round. Skin rough to touch. Scutes in five rows, back with nine 

 in its row, one at base of dorsal, and sides with twenty-six irregu- 

 lar anteriorly enlarged and posteriorly oblong with a small carina. 

 Scutes regular, oblong, radiated, and surmounted by a sharp 

 keel, and rudiments sometimes between. Abdominal plates ob- 

 long, small, five on left side, three on right, and placed opposite 



