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Acipenseridae
Taxonomy
Acipenseridae was named by Bonaparte (1831). It is extant.
It was assigned to Chondrostei by Hay (1902); to Acipenseroidei by Grande and Bemis (1996), Grande and Hilton (2006) and Nelson et al. (2016); and to Acipenseriformes by Estes (1964), Estes (1969), Applegate (1970), Thurmond and Jones (1981), Purdy et al. (2001), Peng et al. (2001), Fierstine et al. (2012), Betancur et al. (2013), Carnevale and Godfrey (2018), Hilton and Grande (2022) and Murray et al. (2023).
It was assigned to Chondrostei by Hay (1902); to Acipenseroidei by Grande and Bemis (1996), Grande and Hilton (2006) and Nelson et al. (2016); and to Acipenseriformes by Estes (1964), Estes (1969), Applegate (1970), Thurmond and Jones (1981), Purdy et al. (2001), Peng et al. (2001), Fierstine et al. (2012), Betancur et al. (2013), Carnevale and Godfrey (2018), Hilton and Grande (2022) and Murray et al. (2023).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1831 | Acipenseridae Bonaparte |
| 1902 | Acipenseridae Hay p. 371 |
| 1964 | Acipenseridae Estes p. 20 |
| 1969 | Acipenseridae Estes p. 3 |
| 1970 | Acipenseridae Applegate p. 398 |
| 1981 | Acipenseridae Thurmond and Jones p. 81 |
| 1996 | Acipenseridae Grande and Bemis p. 109 fig. 11 |
| 2001 | Acipenseridae Peng et al. p. 11 |
| 2001 | Acipenseridae Purdy et al. p. 161 |
| 2006 | Acipenseridae Grande and Hilton p. 5 |
| 2012 | Acipenseridae Fierstine et al. p. 11 |
| 2013 | Acipenseridae Betancur et al. |
| 2016 | Acipenseridae Nelson et al. p. 119 |
| 2018 | Acipenseridae Carnevale and Godfrey p. 163 |
| 2022 | Acipenseridae Hilton and Grande |
| 2023 | Acipenseridae Murray et al. p. 3 |
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Fm. Acipenseridae Bonaparte 1831
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G. Acipenser Linnaeus 1758 [sturgeon]
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†Acipenser albertensis Lambe 1902
†Acipenser amnisinferos Hilton and Grande 2022
Acipenser brevirostrum Leseuer 1818 [shortnose sturgeon]
Acipenser fulvescens Rafinesque 1817 [lake sturgeon]
†Acipenser gigantissimus Nessov 1997
Acipenser medirostris Ayres 1854
†Acipenser molassicus Probst 1882
†Acipenser ornatus Leidy 1873
†Acipenser oxyrhynchus Mitchell 1814
†Acipenser praeparatorum Hilton and Grande 2022
†Acipenser toliapicus Agassiz 1844
†Acipenser tuberculosus Probst 1882
Invalid names: Acipenses Linck 1790 [synonym]
Subfm. †Priscosturioninae Grande and Hilton 2009
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Subfm. Scaphirhynchinae Bonaparte 1846
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Invalid names: Propenserinae Applegate 1970 [empty], Pseudoscaphirhynchinae [empty]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available