Writing Homework Help

USCA Checklist of Freshwater Fish Atlantic Sturgeon Acipenser Oxyrinchus Discussion

 

I’m working on a biology project and need guidance to help me learn.

*** I need someone to set complete this fish inventory list for every fish included. Once you scroll through the list, at the end I have provided an example of how to do an inventory for a species

Example right below. This is how you will set up the project per fish (layout is also included). Leave the field notes spot blank. Answer everything from page 5 and below.:

Order: Acipenseriformes

Family: Acipenseridae

Shortnose Sturgeon Acipenser brevirostrum

Identification characteristics:

[here you should describe the visual features you noticed about this species that makes it obvious to you which one it is – characteristics that would help you identify it if you ever saw it while sampling]

Distribution: [provide information on the range of the species, where it is known to occur, which river systems, states, regions, etc.]

Habitat: [here you need to describe the kinds of habitats the species is known to occur. Include descriptions of those habitats – main river channel associated with sandy bottom substrate and relatively rapid water flow]

Biology/Ecology: [here you need to describe some basic information about what makes this species unique – for shortnose sturgeon you could summarize information about its status as threatened, that it is an anadromous species and is know to spawn from mid-February to mid-March, etc.the more info you can provide the better, I want to see that you learned something about the species]

Field Notes: [this is for when we actually collect a specimen of a species so you won’t have this section for all of the fishes in the list.For the ones that we do collect, here you summarize the sites where we saw it, what kind of habitat it was associated with, did we get a lot or just a few, etc.