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  • snout conical, short, rounded
    top bucklers widely spaced
    any bucklers behind D & A in 1 row
    Acipenser brevirostrum, Shortnose Sturgeon
    A 19-22
  • snout cónical, long, pointed
    top bucklers crowded
    buckers behind D & A paired
    Acipenser oxyrinchus, Atlantic Sturgeon
    A 23-30
  • snout depressed, long
    snout to barbels > barbels to mouth
    tail base long, depressed, completely covered with bony plates
    Scaphirhynchus albus, Pallid Sturgeon
    bases of barbels in curved line