Scaphirhynchus suttkusi Williams & Clemmer, 1991:19
Alabama sturgeon
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Last record (wild): 2007 (male captured, transponder attached); June 2009 (transponder ceased relaying information)
Last record (captivity): 2013
Rediscovered in: 2015 (Kuhajda & Rider, 2016)
IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered
Distribution
Alabama, USA
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Williams, J. D. and Clemmer, G. H. (1991). Scaphirhynchus suttkusi, a new sturgeon (Pisces: Acipenseridae) from the Mobile Basin of Alabama and Mississippi. Bulletin of the Alabama Museum of Natural History 10: 17-31.
Other references:
Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. (eds). (1996). 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. pp. 378. International Union for Conservation of Nature, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
Burke, J. S. and Ramsey, J. S. (1985). Status survey on the Alabama shovel nose sturgeon (Scaphirhynchus sp. cf. platorynchus) in the Mobile Bay drainage. Unpublished report. Submitted to U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Jackson, Mississippi. 61 pp.
Deacon, James E., Kobetich, Gail, Williams, James D. and Contreras, Salvador. (1979). Fishes of North America endangered, threatened, or of special concern: 1979. Fisheries 4(2): 29-44.
Groombridge, B. (ed.). (1994). 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
Haxton, T. J., Sulak, K. and Hildebrand, L. (2016). Status of scientific knowledge of North American sturgeons. Journal of Applied Ichthyology. DOI: 10.1111/jai.13235 [Abstract]
Holmes, Branden. (2021). What's Lost and What Remains: The Sixth Extinction in 100 Accounts (eBook). Self published.
IUCN. (1990). 1990 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
Janosik, Alexis M. et al. (2021). Improved environmental DNA sampling scheme for Alabama sturgeon provides new insight into a species once presumed extinct. Journal of Applied Ichthyology 37(2): 178-185. [Abstract]
Jelks, Howard L., Walsh, Stephen J., Burkhead, Noel M., Contreras-Balderas, Salvador, Díaz-Pardo, Edmundo, Hendrickson, Dean A., Lyons, J., Mandrak, Nicholas E., McCormick, Frank, Nelson, Joseph F., Platania, Steven P., Porter, Brady A., Renaud, Claude B., Schmitter-Soto, Juan Jacabo, Taylor, Eric B. and Warren, Melvin L. Jr. (2008). Conservation status of imperiled North American freshwater and diadromous fishes. Fisheries 33(8): 372-407.
Kuhajda, B. R. and Rider, S. J. (2016). Status of the Imperiled Alabama Sturgeon (Scaphirhynchus suttkusi Williams and Clemmer, 1991). Journal of Applied Ichthyology. doi:10.1111/jai.13237 [Abstract]
Kuhajda, B. R. and Rider, S. J. (2022). Scaphirhynchus suttkusi. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2022: e.T19942A81759618. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2022-1.RLTS.T19942A81759618.en. Accessed on 08 April 2025.
Parauka, F. M. (U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service). (2004). Scaphirhynchus suttkusi. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2004: e.T19942A9111703. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2004.RLTS.T19942A9111703.en. Downloaded on 15 October 2016.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. (2000). Alabama Sturgeon Conservation Plan. 2000. Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Alabama-Tombigbee Rivers Coalition.
Williams, Jack E., Johnson, James E., Hendrickson, Dean A., Contreras-Balderas, Salvador, Williams, James D., Navarro-Mendoza, Miguel, McAllister, Don E. and Deacon, James E. (1989). Fishes of North America endangered, threatened, or of special concern: 1989. Fisheries 14(6): 2-20 [3].
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