Polyodon spathula

Familia: Polyodontidae
Genus: Polyodon
Species:

Polyodon spathula (Walbaum, 1792)

Type locality: Louisiana, the Mississippi River, U.S.A

No types known

• Accipenser lagenarius Rafinesque, 1820
• Platirostra edentula Lesueur, 1818
• Polyodon feuille Lacepède, 1797
• Polyodon folium Bloch & Schneider, 1801
• Proceros maculatus Rafinesque, 1820
• Proceros vittatus Rafinesque, 1820
• Squalus spathula Walbaum, 1792

• Walbaum, J.J. 1792: Petri Artedi sueci genera piscium. In quibus systema totum ichthyologiae proponitur cum classibus, ordinibus, generum characteribus, specierum differentiis, observationibus plurimis. Redactis speciebus 242 ad genera 52. Ichthyologiae pars III. Ant. Ferdin. Rose, Grypeswaldiae. (3): [i-viii] + 1-723, Pls. 1-3.BHL
• Lee, D.S., C.R. Gilbert, C.H. Hocutt, R.E. Jenkins, D.E. McAllister & J.R. Stauffer, Jr. 1980: Atlas of North American freshwater fishes. Publication #1980-12 of the North Carolina Biological Survey. i-x + 1-854.

• Polyodon spathula – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
• Polyodon spathula in FishBase,
  Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2025. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.
• Polyodon spathula in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2025. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.

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