Scaphirhynchus

Scaphirhynchus albus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Acipenseriformes
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri Subclassis/Infraclassis: Chondrostei Ordo: Acipenseriformes

Familia: Acipenseridae
Subfamilia: Scaphirhynchinae
Genus: Scaphirhynchus
Species: S. albus – S. platorynchus – S. suttkusi

Name

Scaphirhynchus Heckel, 1836

• Type species: Scaphirhynchus rafinesquii Heckel, 1836

Etymology: From scapho- (= shovel), and rhynchus (= snout), referring to flat, shovel-shaped snout. (From: The ETYFish project)

Vernacular names

беларуская: Лапатаносы
中文: 鏟鱘

References

• Heckel, J.J. 1836. Scaphirhynchus, eine neue Fischgattung aus der Ordnung der Chondropterygier mit freien Kiemen. Annalen des Wiener Museums der Naturgeschichte 1: 69–78, Pl. 8. [Possibly published in 1835.] Reference page. 

Links

• Scaphirhynchus and its species (including synonyms) in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2024. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.
• Scaphirhynchus species list in FishBase,
  Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.