Skeletal anatomy of the North American shovelnose sturgeon Scaphirhynchus platorynchus (Rafinesque 1820) with comparisons to other Acipenseriformes
The Acipenseridae comprises the largest group of non-teleostean actinopterygians and has served a central role in evolutionary studies of the Actinopterygii, and yet no comprehensive study of morphology and systematics of the family has ever been made. The family includes twenty-four species within...
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ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst
1993
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| Online Access: | https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI9408273 |