Atlantic Sturgeon Animal Pictures
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Atlantic Sturgeon scutes
The bony body armor on the Atlantic Sturgeon are called scutes. They offer additional protection to the fish.
Atlantic Sturgeon on ocean floor
Atlantic Sturgeon typically stay at the bottoms of the oceans and rivers they inhabit.
Atlantic Sturgeon with school of small fish. Big Atlantic sturgeon floats in deep blue salt water with other fishes, close-up photo with shallow DOF
Normally traveling in schools, these Atlantic Sturgeons are amid a school of smaller fish.
Atlantic sturgeon on white background Sturgeon fish isolated on white background
Atlantic Sturgeon are anadromous, meaning they live in salt water but move to freshwater to spawn.
