Scaphirhynchus
Appearance
Taxonavigation
[edit]Taxonavigation: Acipenseriformes |
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: Acipenseridae
Subfamilia: Scaphirhynchinae
Genus: Scaphirhynchus
Species: S. albus – S. platorynchus – S. suttkusi
Name
[edit]Scaphirhynchus Heckel, 1836
- Type species: Scaphirhynchus rafinesquii Heckel, 1836
Etymology: From scapho- (= shovel), and rhynchus (= snout), referring to flat, shovel-shaped snout. (From: The ETYFish project)
Vernacular names
[edit]беларуская: Лапатаносы
中文: 鏟鱘
中文: 鏟鱘
References
[edit]- Heckel, J.J. 1836. Scaphirhynchus, eine neue Fischgattung aus der Ordnung der Chondropterygier mit freien Kiemen. Annalen des Wiener Museums der Naturgeschichte 1: 69–78, Pl. 8. [Possibly published in 1835.] Reference page.
Links
[edit]- Scaphirhynchus and its species (including synonyms) in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2024. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.
- Scaphirhynchus species list in FishBase,
Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.