Osteology and phylogenetic interrelationships of sturgeons (Acipenseridae)

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 48, Issue 1-4, 1997, Pages 73-126

  Findeis, Eric K ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acipenser; Actinopterygii; benthic fishes; cladistics; evolutionary morphology; Huso; peramorphosis; Pseudoscaphirhynchus; Scaphirhynchus

Indexed keywords

ACIPENSER; ACIPENSERIDAE; ACIPENSERIFORMES; ACIPENSERINAE; ACTINOPTERYGII; CHONDROSTEIDAE; HUSO; PISCES; PSEUDOSCAPHIRHYNCHUS; SCAPHIRHYNCHUS;

EID: 0030904959     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1007372832213     Document Type: Conference Paper

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