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Sturgeon (from Old English styrġa ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *str̥(Hx)yón-[1]) is the common name for the 28 species of fish belonging to the family Acipenseridae. The earliest sturgeon fossils date to the Late Cretaceous , and are descended from other, earlier acipenseriform fish , which date back to the Early Jurassic period, some ...
The European sea sturgeon (Acipenser sturio), also known as the Atlantic sturgeon or common sturgeon, is a species of sturgeon native to Europe. It was formerly abundant, being found in coastal habitats all over Europe. [5] Most specifically, they reach the Black and Baltic Sea. [6] It is anadromous and breeds in rivers.
Scaphirhynchus is a genus of sturgeons native to North America. All species in this genus are considered to be threatened with extinction or worse. [2] [3] [4] As of 2023, the pallid sturgeon (S. albus) [3] and the Alabama sturgeon (S. suttkusi) [4] are critically endangered according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
The beluga (/ b ə ˈ l uː ɡ ə /), also known as the beluga sturgeon or great sturgeon (Huso huso), is a species of anadromous fish in the sturgeon family (Acipenseridae) of the order Acipenseriformes. It is found primarily in the Caspian and Black Sea basins, and formerly in the Adriatic Sea.
Acipenser is a genus of sturgeons.With 17 living species (others are only known from fossil remains), it is the largest genus in the order Acipenseriformes.The genus is paraphyletic, containing all sturgeons that do not belong to Huso, Scaphirhynchus, or Pseudoscaphirhynchus, with many species more closely related to the other three genera than they are to other species of Acipenser.
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Commercial sturgeon fishing was prohibited in the Soviet Union during the periods 1923–1930, 1958–1976 and from 1984 to the present (Vaisman and Fomenko 2007). The Kaluga sturgeon was listed in Appendix II of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) in 1998. [2]
Chinese sturgeon in Dalian Laohutan Ocean Park. Most sturgeon spawn in fresh water and migrate to salt water to mature. The Chinese sturgeon can be considered a large freshwater fish, although it spends part of its lifecycle in seawater, like the salmon, [9] except Chinese sturgeon spawn multiple times throughout their lives.