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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Headquarters, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons / https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0d/Shortnose_sturgeon_…IMAGE INFORMATION

White and Black Sturgeon caught in the Delaware River

Object Status:

Unlocated

Accession Date:

May 24, 1821

Primary Source Reference:

Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 114

Notes:

This specimen may have been a juvenile shortnose sturgeon (Acipenser brevirostrum), the back and flanks of which are dark grey or black and the belly white.

Specimen Type:

Dead/preserved

Current Common Name:

Shortnose sturgeon

Current Scientific Name

Acipenser brevirostrum