This is a sturgeon appreciation post.
I love those little guys.
Beluga, Atlantic, Lake, Gulf, you name it.
I am appreciating them all right now
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Do you have a favorite creature (bird/fish/bug etc)? 👀👀
ohh its hard to think tbh
i have a lot favourite creatures like horseshoe crabs and those deers who scratch their eyes with twigs, but i think right now my favourites are otters (sea ones are silliest) and sturgeons (prehistoric lookin dudes)
i even drew my artsona as sturgeon one time! my ever beloved fish
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omg sorry you already did sturgeon how about the pygmy sunfish?
fish 36 - pygmy sunfish
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Daily fish fact #365
A YEAR OF FISH FACTS!
Thank you. It has been an honour.
Let's get to another good, fishy year, shall we?
I shall dedicate this one to my very favourite fish, my true love:
Acipenser oxyrinchus!
Their current native range is the east coast of North America, but they were also endemic to the Baltic Sea before they went extinct in the 20th century. There have been attempts to replant it though! It's a fish that enjoys living alone or in small groups and they migrate up rivers to spawn.
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“...I took Spanish in community college.” - Frank, Animal Control
(Joel McHale paused to let the joke sink in but I’m surprised he didn’t look straight into the camera and smile and wink because I totally would have)
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how many sturgeon species are there?
There are 28 extant species of sturgeon, organized into 4 genera: Acipenser, Huso, Scaphirhynchus, and Pseudoscaphirhynchus.
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Genus Acipenser contains the fish that come to most people’s minds when thinking of sturgeon: lake sturgeon, Atlantic sturgeon, white sturgeon, European sea sturgeon, etc. This is the largest genus of the family Acipenseridae, containing 20 species of sturgeon. Sturgeon in this family can be found in North America, Europe, and Asia.
(Atlantic sturgeon, A. oxyrynchus)
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Genus Huso has only two members: beluga and kaluga. They are native to Russia and the surrounding parts of Eurasia. There is some argument that these fish should be included in the genus Acipenser. Unlike the members of genus Acipenser, whose protrusible mouths face downward, sturgeons in genus Huso have forward-facing protrusible mouths.
(Kaluga, H. dauricus)
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Genus Scaphirhynchus contains three species of fish: shovelnose sturgeon, pallid sturgeon, and Alabama sturgeon. Scaphirhynchus means “spade snout”, in reference to these sturgeons’ long, flat, shovel-like snouts used to dig along river beds for food. This genus of sturgeon is native exclusively to the Missouri, Mississippi, and Alabama rivers in North America.
(Pallid sturgeon, S. albus)
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Genus Pseudoscaphirhynchus is native exclusively to the Aral Sea system in Central Asia. This genus has three members as well: the Amu Darya sturgeon, the dwarf sturgeon, and the Syr Darya sturgeon. Like genus Scaphirhynchus, these fish have shovel-like snouts. Sturgeon in this genus are very small compared to sturgeon in other genus; the largest Pseudoscaphirhynchus sturgeon reach about 30”, excluding tail filament.
(Amu Darya sturgeon, P. kaufmanni)
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Most species of sturgeon are endangered in some capacity. Many of the sturgeon mentioned in this post are critically endangered, with no individuals being spotted in the wild for many years.
It breaks my heart to think that we are slowly losing more and more species of these beautiful fish. But interest in their well-being is the first step to conservation, and that’s what I hope to cultivate here at sturgeonposting. Sorry to get all sappy at the end. I just love these guys. Long may the sturgeon swim.
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You know those older white men that kinda look tanned but also burned at the same time? That’s Price. Puts on sun screen but doesn’t reapply.
He also doesn’t really like pools or the beach, he prefers fishing. (I just love that headcanon of him)
he has terrible fucking jokes about fish too.
"what do you call a fish that practices medicine?"
*sigh* "what?"
"--a, a stur," he wheezes, "a sturgeon."
hes the type to complain about the light beer you bought for yourself, or the cider. "tha's not real beer, love. gotta get somethin' that'll put some hair on your chest."
got enough of that for the both of us, price.
fishing on price makes so much sense that's why he wears that bucket hat everywhere. when not on a mission, he's got like tackle pinned on it lmao
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Hello! May I request a sturgeon, specifically the species Acipenser oxyrinchus?
fish 11 - atlantic sturgeon/acipenser oxyrinchus
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