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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›orderAcipenseriformes
  4. ›familyAcipenseridae
  5. ›genusScaphirhynchus
Scaphirhynchus suttkusi
Patrick O'Niel, , Geological Survey of Alabama (Public domain) · Wikimedia Commons. Found by name on iNaturalist, Wikimedia Commons and in the open-access papers that described the species (Plazi); click a picture for its credit and licence.
IUCN CR · Critically endangered

Alabama sturgeon

Scaphirhynchus suttkusi Williams & Clemmer, 1991

Also calledAlabama-Schaufelstör (deu) · Alabamastør (dan) · Esturjão-do-alabama (por) · lopatonos alabamský (ces) · storione dell'Alabama (ita) · حفش ألاباما (ara)

First described in: Williams, J. D.; Clemmer, G. H. (1991). Scaphirhynchus suttkusi, a new sturgeon (Pisces: Acipenseridae) from the Mobile basin of Alabama and Mississippi. <em>Alabama Museum of Natural History Bulletin.</em> 10: 17-31.

This species is catalogued but little written about: there is no encyclopaedia article for it yet. What the world knows is in its records below and in the literature linked under “In the stacks”.

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Where it has been recorded

Recorded sightings

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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.

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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2402090.