Common and scientific names of fishes from the United States, Canada, and Mexico

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Skeletal Anatomy of the Shortnose Sturgeon, Acipenser brevirostrum Lesueur, 1818, and the Systematics of Sturgeons (Acipenseriformes, Acipenseridae) (2011, background): “While the shortnose sturgeon is the most commonly used vernacular name for A. brevirostrum (Nelson et al., 2004), other names include the shortnosed sturgeon, pinkster, roundnoser, bottlenose, mammose, salmon sturgeon, soft-shell sturgeon, and, inappropriately, lake sturgeon (Dadswell et al., 1984).”
Extinction Rates in North American Freshwater Fishes, 1900–2010 (2012, background): “At the end of 2010, the freshwater fish fauna of North America consisted of 53 families, 214 genera, and 1213 species, or about 8.9% of the Earth’s freshwater fish diversity (Nelson et al. 2004).”
Long Term Resource Monitoring Program procedures: fish monitoring (2014, background): “Scientific and common names are those most recently established by the American Fisheries Society (Nelson et al. 2004).”