Original description as Acipenser oxyrhynchus:
ZooBank:32517298-3FCD-462F-9A3C-88A54A65720C.
- Mitchill, S.L. 1815. "The fishes of New York described and arranged". Transactions of the Literary and Philosophical Society of New York. 1:355-492 (ffm04539)
Conservation: Acipenser oxyrhynchus is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (NT) near threatened (2006).