First Specimen of the White Sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus Richardson, 1836) in Coastal Waters of Mexico with Data on its Genetic Identity.

Abstract

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.