Acipenseroidei

Acipenseroidei is a suborder of acipenseriform ray-finned fish. It contains the sturgeons (Acipenseridae) and paddlefishes (Polyodontidae), both living and fossil species.[1]

Acipenseroidei
Temporal range:
Atlantic sturgeon
(Acipenser oxyrinchus oxyrinchus)
Chinese paddlefish
(Psephurus gladius)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Acipenseriformes
Clade: Acipenseristomi
Suborder: Acipenseroidei
Grande and Bemis 1996
Families

Acipenseridae
Polyodontidae
(see text for included genera)

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Sturgeons are well known for the production of caviar.

In 2020, an American paddlefish (Polyodon spathula) was hybridised with a Russian sturgeon (Acipenser gueldenstaedtii), producing what the Hungarian scientists responsible named a "sturddlefish".[2][3]

Systematics

References

  1. Martin Hochleithner, Joern Gessner, and Sergej Podushka (2001). The Bibliography of Acipenseriformes. CD-ROM
  2. Scientists accidentally create unlikely fish hybrid, Science Jul. 17, 2020
  3. Káldy, Jenő; Mozsár, Attila; Fazekas, Gyöngyvér; Farkas, Móni; Fazekas, Dorottya Lilla; Fazekas, Georgina Lea; Goda, Katalin; Gyöngy, Zsuzsanna; Kovács, Balázs; Semmens, Kenneth; Bercsényi, Miklós (July 2020). "Hybridization of Russian Sturgeon (Acipenser gueldenstaedtii, Brandt and Ratzeberg, 1833) and American Paddlefish (Polyodon spathula, Walbaum 1792) and Evaluation of Their Progeny". Genes. 11 (7): 753. doi:10.3390/genes11070753. PMC 7397225. PMID 32640744.


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