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FishBase Names Scientific source: Integrated Taxonomic Information System Supported by National Biological Information Infrastructure National Science Foundation go to Discover Life's Facebook group Following modified from FishBase    Top | See original http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/speciesSummary.php?genusname=Polyodon&speciesname=spathula ---> http://192.134.151.83/Summary/speciesSummary.php?genusname=Polyodon&speciesname=spathula http://192.134.151.83/Summary/speciesSummary.php?genusname=Polyodon&speciesname=spathula ---> https://fishbase.mnhn.fr/Summary/speciesSummary.php?genusname=Polyodon&speciesname=spathula https://fishbase.mnhn.fr/Summary/speciesSummary.php?genusname=Polyodon&speciesname=spathula ---> https://fishbase.mnhn.fr/summary/Polyodon-spathula.html You can sponsor this page Common name (e.g. trout) contains begins with begins with ends with is Genus + Species (e.g. Gadus morhua) About this page More Info Plus d'info Mais info Languages Arabic Bahasa/Malay Bangla Chinese(Si) Chinese(Tr) Deutsch English Español Farsi Français Greek Hindi Italiano Japanese Lao Nederlands Português(Br) Português(Pt) Russian Swedish Thai Vietnamese User feedbacks Comments &   Corrections Fish Forum Guest Book Facebook Citation Uploads Attach website Upload photo Upload video Upload   references Fish Watcher Related species Species in    Polyodon Species in    Polyodontidae - Classification - Polyodontidae Acipenseriformes Chondrostei Chordata Animalia Polyodon spathula ( Walbaum , 1792 ) Mississippi paddlefish Upload your photos  and  videos Pictures | Stamps, Coins Misc. | Google image Polyodon spathula Picture by Moreau, J. Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | Catalog of Fishes( genus , species ) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa Chondrostei (sturgeons) > Acipenseriformes (Sturgeons and paddlefishes) > Polyodontidae (Paddlefishes) Etymology: Polyodon: Greek, polys = a lot of + Greek, odous = teeth (Ref. 45335 ) ;   spathula: Polyodon , many toothed, perhaps due to the numerous gill rakers because adult paddlefish lack teeth, although young fish has many small teeth, and spathula meaning spatula, due to its elongated snout (Ref. 79012 ) . More on author: Walbaum . Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology Freshwater; demersal; potamodromous (Ref. 51243 ); depth range 2 - ? m. Subtropical; 10°C - 18°C (Ref. 2060 ); 49°N - 29°N, 112°W - 77°W (Ref. 86798 ) Distribution Countries | FAO areas | Ecosystems | Occurrences | Point map | Introductions | Faunafri North America: Mississippi River basin from southwestern New York to Montana and south to Louisiana; Gulf Slope drainagaes from Mobile Bay in Alabama, to Galveston Bay in Texas, USA. Formerly in Great Lakes basin, probably extirpated. At least one country reports adverse ecological impact after introduction. Size / Weight / Age Maturity: L m   ?   range ? - ? cm Max length : 221 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 86798 ); common length : 120 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 12193 ); max. published weight: 90.7 kg (Ref. 3221 ); max. reported age: 55 years (Ref. 46974 ) Short description Morphology | Morphometrics Snout long, canoe-paddle-shaped; gill cover with large, fleshy, pointed flap (Ref. 86798 ). Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic) Usually inhabits water deeper than 1.2 m in slow-flowing large rivers, lakes, and impoundments (Ref. 86798 ). Feeds on plankton. The extended upper jaw (= paddle) may help to channel plankton into the mouth. Threatened due to over harvesting, habitat loss and pollution (Ref. 58490 ). Life cycle and mating behavior Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae Main reference Upload your references | References | Coordinator | Collaborators Page, L.M. and B.M. Burr , 2011. A field guide to freshwater fishes of North America north of Mexico. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 663p. (Ref. 86798 ) IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435 )   Vulnerable (VU)  (A2cd); Date assessed: 14 September 2019 CITES Appendix II: International trade monitored CMS (Ref. 116361 ) Not Evaluated Threat to humans Human uses Fisheries: commercial; aquarium: public aquariums FAO - Fisheries: landings , species profile ; Publication: search | FishSource | More information Countries FAO areas Ecosystems Occurrences Introductions Stocks Ecology Diet Food items Food consumption Ration Common names Synonyms Metabolism Predators Ecotoxicology Reproduction Maturity Spawning Spawning aggregation Fecundity Eggs Egg development Age/Size Growth Length-weight Length-length Length-frequencies Morphometrics Morphology Larvae Larval dynamics Recruitment Abundance BRUVS References Aquaculture Aquaculture profile Strains Genetics Electrophoreses Heritability Diseases Processing Nutrients Mass conversion Collaborators Pictures Stamps, Coins Misc. 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Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00646 (0.00430 - 0.00969), b=3.09 (2.98 - 3.20), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this species (Ref. 93245 ). Trophic level (Ref. 69278 ):  3.4   ±0.45 se; based on food items. Resilience (Ref. 120179 ):  Low, minimum population doubling time 4.5 - 14 years (tm=6-9; tmax=30). Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153 ):  Very high vulnerability (90 of 100). Price category (Ref. 80766 ):   Unknown . Nutrients (Ref. 124155 ):  Calcium = 29.6 [13.4, 59.0] mg/100g; Iron = 1.11 [0.65, 1.86] mg/100g; Protein = 18.1 [15.6, 20.7] %; Omega3 = 0.356 [0.139, 0.908] g/100g; Selenium = 71.4 [29.0, 167.5] μg/100g; VitaminA = 11.8 [3.6, 39.5] μg/100g; Zinc = 0.737 [0.499, 1.125] mg/100g (wet weight); Comments & Corrections Back to Search Random Species Back to Top Accessed through: Not available FishBase mirror site : localhost Page last modified by : mrius-barile - 20 July 2016 Fatal error : Uncaught ArgumentCountError: Too few arguments to function checkEcotox(), 1 passed in /var/www/html/summary/speciessummary.php on line 2304 and exactly 3 expected in /var/www/html/includes/speciessummary.lib.php:2579 Stack trace: #0 /var/www/html/summary/speciessummary.php(2304): checkEcotox() #1 {main} thrown in /var/www/html/includes/speciessummary.lib.php on line 2579 Updated: 2024-05-23 05:31:57 gmt FishBase | Search | All Living Things | Top © Designed by The Polistes Corporation