Acipenseridae

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Acipenser

[edit] Taxonavigation

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Cladus: Eukaryota
Supergroup: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Superclassis: Osteichthyes
Classis: Actinopterygii
Subclassis: Chondrostei
Ordo: Acipenseriformes
Familia: Acipenseridae
Subfamiliae: Acipenserinae - Scaphirhynchinae - †Priscosturioninae
[list of subfamiliae after Grande & Hilton (2009: 318)]

[edit] Overview of genera

Acipenser - Huso - Pseudoscaphirhynchus - Scaphirhynchus - †Priscosturion - †Protoscaphirhynchus
[list of genera after Grande & Hilton (2009: 318)]

[edit] References

• Grande, L.; Hilton, E.J. 2006: An exquisitely preserved skeleton representing a primitive sturgeon from the Upper Cretaceous Judith River Formation of Montana (Acipenseriformes: Acipenseridae: n. gen. and sp.) Memoir of the journal of paleontology, 65: 1–39.
• Grande, L.; Hilton, E.J. 2009: A replacement name for †Psammorhynchus Grande & Hilton, 2006 (Actinopterygii, Acipenseriformes, Acipenseridae). Journal of paleontology, 83: 317–318. doi: 10.1666/08-137.1

[edit] Vernacular names

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