41. Lastly, the " supracaudal scutes " surround the area above the tail. 42. The bright spots on its marginal scutes were like light bulbs in a mirror. 43. The gular, humeral, pectoral, abdominal, femoral, and anal scutes . 44. The upper body is covered by a dark grey bony carapace of squarish scutes . 45. Such small round scutes also covered the throat. 46. Terminal scute very small, with two points. 47. Terminal scute with a transverse ridge, indistinctly bicuspid, rounded in the young. 48. The scutes also tend to be sharper and more pointed than in white sturgeon. 49. The plastral scutes join along a central seam down the middle of the plastron. 50. Single rows of paired oval scutes may have filled in between the spiked rows.
