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Acipenseridae (Sturgeons) Acipenser. Acipenser baerii — Siberian sturgeon. Acipenser gueldenstaedtii — Russian sturgeon. Acipenser mikadoi — Sakhalin sturgeon. Acipenser nudiventris — Fringebarbel sturgeon. Acipenser persicus — Persian sturgeon. Acipenser ruthenus — Sterlet. Acipenser schrenckii — Japanese sturgeon.
Category. : Fish of Russia. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Fish of Russia. The freshwater and marine Fish which are native— indigenous to Russia and its adjacent oceans and seas, in Europe and Asia. When the distribution range in Russia is known please also use Category: Fish of Europe and/or Category: Fish of East Asia.
The list of fish of the Black Sea consists of indigenous, and also introduced species. The following tags are used to indicate the conservation status of species by IUCN 's criteria: All the listed species are classified by their origin as native, introduced, invasive, and species found accidentally (difficult to characterize as native or ...
The European flounder (Platichthys flesus) was a saltwater fish introduced to the Aral Sea. The black carp ( Mylopharyngodon piceus ) was a freshwater fish introduced to the Aral Sea. Other salt-tolerant fish species were intentionally or inadvertently introduced during the 1960s when hydropower and irrigation projects reduced the flow of fresh ...
A 1000-kg, 4.17-m-long beluga fish from the Volga River (National Museum of Tatarstan, Kazan, Russia) Among all extant bony fishes, the beluga sturgeon rivals the ocean sunfish (Mola sp.) as the most massive fish and is the second-longest bony fish after the giant oarfish (Regalecus glesne). It is the largest freshwater fish in the world.
Lake Baikal is in a rift valley, created by the Baikal Rift Zone, where the Earth's crust is slowly pulling apart. [5] At 636 km (395 mi) long and 79 km (49 mi) wide, Lake Baikal has the largest surface area of any freshwater lake in Asia, at 31,722 km 2 (12,248 sq mi), and is the deepest lake in the world at 1,642 metres (5,387 feet; 898 fathoms).
Herring are forage fish, mostly belonging to the family of Clupeidae. Herring often move in large schools around fishing banks and near the coast, found particularly in shallow, temperate waters of the North Pacific and North Atlantic Oceans, including the Baltic Sea, as well as off the west coast of South America.
Eurasian carp. Painting by Ellen Edmonson. The Eurasian carp or European carp (Cyprinus carpio), widely known as the common carp, is a widespread freshwater fish of eutrophic waters in lakes and large rivers in Europe and Asia. [2][3] The native wild populations are considered vulnerable to extinction by the International Union for Conservation ...