• Characteristics - young are tan or buff colored sometimes contrastingly blotched with dark becoming more uniformly dark as they grow older, adults are slate-gray to black above and light beneath, head is roundly conical in shape
• Distribution - confined to the Mississippi River where it is listed as endangered
• Foods - insect larvae, snails, bits of aquatic plants and other litter from the river bottom
• Adult Length - 55 inches

For more lake sturgeon information, see Iowa Fish & Fishing.