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Acipenseriformes
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Acipenseriformes is an order of animals within the kingdom Animalia and the phylum Chordata. It belongs to the class Chondrostei. The group is commonly referred to as acipenseriformi and is recognized as an accepted taxon.
Members of this order inhabit marine, brackish, and freshwater environments. Records for the group are held by institutions including UCMP, ROM, UAM, and VIMS. These records originate from the United States and Hungary. The taxon has been documented in 1,266,660 occurrences, with 46 specific records and 2 media items noted in one database.
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Species
acipenseriformi
Acipenseriformes
ORDER
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassChondrostei
- OrderAcipenseriformes
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 46
- With media
- 2
- Collections
- UCMP, ROM, UAM, VIMS
- Recorded in
- United States, Hungary
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Actinopteri
- Image
- Acipenser oxyrhynchus.jpg
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- Commons category
- Acipenseriformes
- taxon rank
- order
- taxon name
- Acipenseriformes
- Code of nomenclature
- International Code of Zoological Nomenclature
- topic's main category
- Category:Acipenseriformes
- taxon common name
- størfisker
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- Description
- Evolutionary history
- Classification
- Conservation
- Hybridization
- References
- External links
thumb|Fossil of the Chondrosteidae|chondrosteid Strongylosteus hindenburgi, Tübingen thumb|Fossil of the Peipiaosteidae|peipiaosteid Yanosteus longidorsalis, [[MHNT]] thumb|The living Polyodontidae|polyodontid Polyodon spathula (American paddlefish) thumb|The living Acipenseridae|acipenserid Acipenser ruthenus (sterlet) thumb|The living Acipenseridae|acipenserid [[Pseudoscaphirhynchus kaufmanni (false shovelnose sturgeon)]]
Acipenseriformes is an order of basal ray-finned fishes that includes living and fossil sturgeons and paddlefishes (Acipenseroidei), as well as the extinct families Chondrosteidae and Peipiaosteidae. They are the second earliest diverging group of living ray-finned fish after the bichirs. Despite being early diverging, they are highly derived (modified from their ancestors), having only weakly ossified skeletons that are mostly made of cartilage, and in modern representatives highly modified skulls.
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