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First Specimen of the White Sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus Richardson, 1836) in Coastal Waters of Mexico with Data on its Genetic Identity.
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Ruiz-Campos, Gorgonio
Castro Aguirre, José Luis
García-De León, Francisco Javier
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female white sturgeon Acipenser transmontanus, 126 cm total length, collected at Todos Santos Bay, Baja California, Mexico on 5 May 2010. The specimen was identified on the basis of the following combination of diagnostic characteristics: barbels closer to tip of snout than to mouth; 11-14 predorsal scutes; no scutes posterior to dorsal fin; 38-48 scutes in lateral row; 9-12 in ventrolateral row; 34-36 gillrakers; body gray dorsally and white in ventral surface; and, viscera black.