ACIPENSER. STURGEON. 



Generic Character, 



Rostrum subtus cirratum. 

 Os sub capite, ovatum, eden- 



tulum, retractile. 

 Coyyus elongatum, supra tu- 



berculis cataphractum. 



Snout bearded beneath. 

 Mouth beneath the headj 



ovate, toothless, retractile. 

 Bochj elongated, mailed a- 



bove by tubercles. 



COMMON STURGEON. 



Acipenser Sturio. A. griseKS, subtus albidus, corpore supra seric 



quint uplici tuherculato, cute scabro. 

 Grey rough-skinned Sturgeon^ whitish beneath, with the body 

 . shielded above by a quintuple series of tubercles. 

 Acipenser Sturio. j4. cirris quatuovj squamis dorsalibus undecim, 



Lin. Syst. Nat. 



Acipenser scutorum ordinibus quinque ad corpus asperum. 



Block t. 88. 

 Acipenser. RondeL Gesn. ^c. 

 Sturio. Sahian, aquat. 113. 

 Sturgeon. Fenn. Brit. Zool. Will, ichth. 8fC, 



Th E Sturgeon is a fish of very great size, grow- 

 ing to the length of eighteen or twenty feet : it is 

 an inhabitant of the Northern European and Ame- 

 rican seas, migrating during the early summer 

 months into the larger rivers and lakes, and return- 

 ing to the sea again in autumn, after having de^ 

 posited its spawn. Its form is long and slender ; 



