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hypoxia 206

irrigation 204,374,409

oil fields 433

overfishing 262-263, 340, 360, 409,

pesticides in the Caspian Sea 216

poaching 216, 322, 332, 396, 409,

423-426

pollution 204-205, 215-216, 227,

262-263, 322, 340-341, 364, 366,

374-375, 377, 396, 409, 427

427

Polyodon spathula279, 282-287
and population vulnerability 399, 427
Scaphirhynchus platorynchus 296
sea levels in the Caspian 216
trawling for fish 205
in the Volga River 209, 215-216
Volgograd Dam 209
water losses 204, 374-376, 382, 429
antorbital bone 55, 83
Apalachicola River, dams in 340
aquaculture
conservation recommendations 411,
see also under reproduction; natural

415

history in individual taxa

Acipenserspp. 158, 378-379

fishery379

hydrological changes 374-376, 382,

429

Aral Sea

Aral Sea ship sturgeon seeAcipenser

artificial reproduction 412

nudiventris

Acipenser brevirostrum 323

Acipenserdabryanus 262

Acipenser oxyrinchus 343-345

Acipenser sinensis 243

Acipenser sturio 361-363, 365-367

Acipenser transmontanus 266-269

in Delaware River 343

hatcheries in the Caspian Basin 215

and inbreeding 395

Psephurus gladius 267

Pseudoscaphirhynchus kaufmanni 378

in the Volga River 215

Asia, biogeography of Acipenseriformes 62

ASMFC (Atlantic States Marine Fisheries

Commission) recommendations and

regulations 343-345

Atlantic region, speciation ofAcipenser 128

Atlantic States Marine Fisheries

CommissionseeASMFC

Atlantic Sturgeon Aquaculture and Stocking

Committee 344

Atlantic sturgeon seeAcipenser oxyrinchus;

Acipenser sturio

barbels 49, 63

basipterygial process 58, 90

basitrabecular process 49, 93-95

beluga see Huso huso

benthic adaptation

of Acipenseridae 75, 118

feeding 59, 119

ofPseudoscaphirhynchus 123

scales 119, 121

ofScaphirhynchus 123

feeding adaptations 119

locomotion adaptation 121

morphological characters 46-52,

benthophagy, evolution of 59

Berg, L. S., career of 15-20

54-55, 58, 78, 83, 85-87, 89-93,

101-104, 107, 115-116

bester 72 systematics 35

biofiltration, in the Danube Delta 204

biogeography 19, 34, 167-181, 174-175

Acipenser41, 43, 128,158

Acipenser brevirostrum 3 19-320

Acipenser fulvescens 300-303, 311

of fossil forms 171-174, 179

and phylogenetic analysis 62-63, 149

†Chondrosteus acipenseroides 35

†Chondrosteus hindenbergii 35

chromosomesseekaryotype

circumorbital bones 114

CITES (Convention on International Trade in

Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and

Flora) 429, 433

characters under individual taxa

cladistic studies 28, 45-48, 76, 145-157

clavicle 89, 114

cleithrum 55, 1 16

Columbia River,Acipenser transmontanusin

comb jellyfish see Mnemiopsis leidyi

Congaree Riverdams 340

Connecticut River

see also biogeography; natural history cladistic characterssee morphological

under individual taxa:

biogeography 171, 173, 179

morphological characters 46-47, 52

synapomorphy 46-47

systematics 34, 47

Acipenserspp 159

anthropogenic impacts 205-206

comb jellyfish, invasion of 206

the northwestern shelf 205

†Birgeria 33

Black Sea 390, 413-414

Acipenser brevirostrumin 321,

dams 329, 340

spawning in 179

conservation 409-414

Acipenser brevirostrum 332-333

geology 180, 204 324-325, 329-330

border rostral bones 99-100

bowfinsseeAmiidae

branchial skeleton 58, 105

branchiostegals 50-52, 54-58, 86, 114-115 Acipenser dabryanus 263

bycatch 332, 339 Acipenserfulvescens 316

Canada, fishery regulation inAcipenser

oxyrinchus (^343) Acipenser sinensis 253
Cape Fear River,Acipenser brevirostrumin
cardiac shield 55, 87
Caribbean Conservation Corporation 345
Caspian Sea
Acipenser oxyrinchus 342-345
Acipenser sturio 367
in the Amur River 245-246, 253
applied technology 429
aquaculture 411, 415
ASMFC 344-345
and dams 414
in the Danube River 206
flow management 414
habitat protection 411-412, 415
museum collections 429
planning 41 1
species identification 429
stocking 429
in the Yangtze River 253-254
322-323
Acipenser persicus in 158
anthropogenic impacts 210, 214-217
reproduction 214-216 and fisheries 404, 411, 415
sturgeons in 209, 310, 433
caudal peduncle 115
caviar 422
economics 342
poaching 423- (^427) Psephurus gladius267-268
Central Asia, anthropogenic impacts 44
cheek bone loss 60
chemoreceptors, evolution of 63
Chesapeake Bay, Acipenser brevirostrum in
China-western North America, speciation of
Chinese paddlefish seePsephurusgladius
Chinese sturgeon seeAcipenser sinensis
†Cheirolepis33, 47, 52
continental drift 169
322 coracoid shelf 89, 116
Acipenser (^128) biogeography 171
†Crossopholis magnicaudatus (Green River
paddlefish) 28, 38
feeding adaptations 1 19
chondrichthyans, relationship to sturgeons 26 morphological characters 50, 78,
† 85-87, 89, 91-3, 101, 103
Chondrosteidae 174 systematics 36, 38-39
biogeography 169, 179
morphological characters 51
phylogeny 26, 171
systematics 35, 51, 74
biogeography 173
culturesee artificial reproduction
cytochrome b (mitochondrial) gene 141-144
dams 318, 409, 427
in the Altamaha River 329
in the Amu Darya River 374
in the Amur River 250-251
†Chondrosteus26, 35