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The meaning of this passage under phylogeny and taxonomy:
edit" While ray-finned fishes (Actinopterygii) have a long evolutionary history culminating in our most familiar fishes, past adaptive evolutionary radiations have left only a few survivors, such as sturgeons and gars."
This doesn't make sense. There are a lot of surviving families of ray-finned fishes. Pciszek (talk) 13:30, 1 May 2021 (UTC)
- You might read the cited source which states: In the ray-finned fishes, the skeletal support for the paired fins is inside the body wall, so that all you see of the fins externally are the ray-like structures in the webbing of the fins themselves. The ray-fins have a long evolutionary history culminating in our most familiar fishes. Past adaptive radiations have left only a few survivors, like sturgeons and garfish. The most recent adaptive radiation consists of the group Teleostei, which includes trout, bass, perch, goldfish, tunas, butterfly fish, and most of the fish with which we are familiar. They represent over 95% of all extant species of fish. If you are challenging the source, or that the material is not supported by the source, you can fix the part that isn't supported or find a RS that supports your challenge of that material. Atsme 💬 📧
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editThe Great Mule of Eupatoria (quite a handle), let's work at getting accurate information about the status of sturgeon. For example according to California Dept of Fish & Wildlife: "White Sturgeon are not state or federally listed, but they are categorized as a state Species of Special Concern." We don't want to conflate specific populations of sturgeon with the global population, either. You might also read this IUCN updated assessment. Atsme 💬 📧 17:19, 3 October 2022 (UTC)
Hello, the reason I have done my edit was because the information in particular is mentioned by the IUCN, which certainly had stated 85% of all sturgeons are threatened but following their recent assessment all species were uplisted. This includes the white sturgeon, which is vulnerable. I was not aware that this took into account other organisations as I only took the IUCN red list as a source. Thank you for letting me know The Great Mule of Eupatoria (talk) 02:46, 4 October 2022 (UTC)