Acipenser sturio
name: label: River Basin
content: Potomac River
notes: label: Notes
content: One specimen label appears to misidentify specimen as Acipenser oxyrynchus. This name is no longer accepted and all other records identify specimen as Acipenser sturio.
label: Notes
content: One skull stored in Osteo Collection. A group of specimens, including this lot, were transferred to the USNM Department of Paleobiology in June 1982. This lot has been returned permanently to the Division of Fishes.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 18 Jul 2017
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Potomac River, United States, North America
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content: Vertebrate Zoology
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content: Fishes
publisher: label: Published Name
content: Acipenser sturio
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Vertebrate Zoology - Fishes Division
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 16395
label: Other Numbers
content: Bone Ledger Number : 25811
label: Other Numbers
content: Original Number : 1864
label: USNM Number
content: 441158
taxonomicName: label: Taxonomy
content: Animalia, Chordata, Vertebrata, Osteichthyes, Actinopterygii, Chondrostei, Acipenseriformes, Acipenseridae
physicalDescription: label: Prep Count
content: 1
label: Preparation
content: Dry Osteological Specimen