sturgeons in English

noun
1
a very large primitive fish with bony plates on the body. It occurs in temperate seas and rivers of the northern hemisphere, especially central Eurasia, and is of commercial importance for its caviar and flesh.
A subspecies of the Atlantic sturgeon, Gulf sturgeons are found in the coastal rivers of the Gulf of Mexico.

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1. Sturgeons, gars, and Bowfins sturgeons, gars, and Bowfins View as: Sort by: Relevance

2. Not long ago, sturgeons weighing 125 kilograms were not uncommon.

3. ‘Since sturgeons and paddlefish have lost many traits of most bony fish - they lack scales and have a Cartilaginous skeleton - …

4. Also, in cross section the acrosome had the shape of a hollow cone rather than the cap of an oak tree acorn, as was found in ultrastructural studies of other sturgeons.

5. There, you will find Agroittica Lombarda, the most prolific Caviar farm in the world, producing 25 tons of eggs per year from endangered sturgeons by using sustainable methods that save the fish — and

6. Anadromous Sentence Examples Lampreys, sticklebacks, cattoids, sturgeons - the white sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus) is commonly known as the "Oregon sturgeon" - trout and salmon are the principal Anadromous fish, the salmon and trout being the most important economically. …

7. Upstream migration is most important for populations of anadromous fish and lamprey species like Salmo salar, sea lampreys Petromyzon marinus and Lampetra fluviatilis or some sturgeons as Acipenser sturio because of their need for periodical (optimally annual) long-distance migrations.

8. ‘In the complementary category of the protostomes, which includes annelids and arthropods, the Blastopore develops into the mouth.’ ‘One group, including amphioxus, lampreys, sturgeons and amphibians, displays the primitive condition, with holoblastic eggs and involution of the endoderm through a Blastopore.’

9. The sperm cell of the pallid sturgeon differed from those of other sturgeons chiefly in the acrosomal region, where the posterolateral projections (PLP) have the shape of an acute triangle and are arranged in a spiral about the longitudinal axis of the cell.