Lake Sturgeon with Mouth Extended

This photo of a lake sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens) shows its protrusible, or extendable, mouth, with which it sucks larvae and other food animals from the bottom of the lake, river, or stream in which it lives.

Close-up of a lake sturgeon's mouth, a fish native to Alabama
Photo courtesy of Matthew Paulson

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Close-up of a lake sturgeon's mouth, a fish native to Alabama