> Are you saying that one baby sturgeon can't told from another?
I said: "Juvenile Alabama sturgeon are virtually indistinguishable from
their congeners." Congeners means members of the same genus (in this case,
Scaphirhynchus), which would be shovelnose and pallid. For maximum clarity I
should have said, "Juvenile Alabama sturgeon are virtually indistinguishable
from other juvenile Scaphirhynchus species."
> I can tell small sterlets from shovelnose.
And well you should. They're from 2 genera: Acipenser and Scaphirhynchus.
Chris Scharpf
Getting aboard my black helicopter and flying to 'bama
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