The lake sturgeon (Huso fulvescens), also known as the rock sturgeon, is a North American temperate freshwater fish, one of 27 species of sturgeon. Like other sturgeons, this species is a bottom feeder and has a partly cartilaginous skeleton, an overall streamlined shape, and skin bearing rows of bony plates on the sides and back.
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Is it venomous or poisonous?
We have no record of Lake Sturgeon being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
Easily confused with
- Sinosturio transmontanus
- Huso ruthenus
- Acipenser oxyrinchus
- Sinosturio medirostris
- Scaphirhynchus platorynchus
- Polyodon spathula
Classification
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Actinopterygii
- Order
- Acipenseriformes
- Family
- Acipenseridae
- Genus
- Huso
- Species
- Huso fulvescens
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