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ACIPENSERIFORMES

Specialty Definition: Acipenseriformes

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Acipenseriformes

Scientific classification

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Acipenseriformes

Families

Acipenseridae (sturgeons)
Polyodontidae (paddlefishes)
Chondrosteidae extinct
Errolichthyidae extinct

Acipenseriformes is an order of primitive ray-finned fisheses that includes the sturgeons and paddlefishes, as well as some extinct families.

Acipenseriform skeletons are largely cartilage.

References

Martin Hochleithner and Joern Gessner, The Sturgeons and Paddlefishes of the World: Biology and Aquaculture
Martin Hochleithner, Joern Gessner, and Sergej Podushka, The Bibliography of Acipenseriformes

Source: the above text is adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Acipenseriformes."

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