Biology:Scaphirhynchinae

Short description: Subfamily of fishes

Scaphirhynchinae Temporal range: Upper Cretaceous–Recent PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N
Pallid sturgeon, Scaphirhynchus albus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Acipenseriformes
Family:	Acipenseridae
Subfamily:	Scaphirhynchinae
Genera
Scaphirhynchus Pseudoscaphirhynchus

Scaphirhynchinae is a subfamily of sturgeon which includes two genera comprising a total of six species.

• Genus Scaphirhynchus Heckel, 1835 (native to North America)
  • Scaphirhynchus albus (Forbes & R. E. Richardson, 1905) (Pallid sturgeon)
  • Scaphirhynchus platorynchus (Rafinesque, 1820) (Shovelnose sturgeon)
  • Scaphirhynchus suttkusi J. D. Williams & Clemmer, 1991 (Alabama sturgeon)
• Genus Pseudoscaphirhynchus Nikolskii, 1900 (native to Central Asia)
  • Pseudoscaphirhynchus fedtschenkoi (Kessler, 1872) (Syr Darya sturgeon)
  • Pseudoscaphirhynchus hermanni (Kessler, 1877) (Dwarf sturgeon)
  • Pseudoscaphirhynchus kaufmanni (Kessler, 1877) (Amu Darya sturgeon)

External links

• Animal Diversity Web

Wikidata ☰ Q634223 entry