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sturgeon
📅 Updated:2022-09-10
🕒 Created:2022-09-10
🆔 ID:44900
Description
Sturgeon are long-lived, late-maturing fish with distinctive characteristics, such as a heterocercal tail fin similar to a shark's, and an elongated, spindle-like body that is smooth-skinned, scaleless, and armored with five lateral rows of bony plates called scutes.
Several species of sturgeon are harvested for their roe, which is processed into the luxury food caviar.
