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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.
The starry sturgeon (Acipenser stellatus), also known as the stellate sturgeon or sevruga (Drakul, Persian: اوزون برون, and Turkish: Uzun Burun, lit. 'long nosed'), is a species of sturgeon .
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 .
Acipenseriformes / æ s ɪ ˈ p ɛ n s ə r ɪ f ɔːr m iː z / is an order of basal [1] ray-finned fishes that includes living and fossil sturgeons and paddlefishes (Acipenseroidei), as well as the extinct families Chondrosteidae and Peipiaosteidae. [2] [3] [4] They are the second earliest diverging group of living ray-finned fish after the ...
Acipenser sturionaster Brusina 1902 The Adriatic sturgeon ( Acipenser naccarii ) is a species of fish in the family Acipenseridae . It is native to the Adriatic Sea and large rivers which flow in it of Albania , Greece , Italy , Montenegro , Croatia , Bosnia and Herzegovina and Slovenia .
The Russian sturgeon (Acipenser gueldenstaedtii), also known as the diamond sturgeon or Danube sturgeon, is a species of fish in the family Acipenseridae.It is found in Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Georgia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, and Ukraine.
Dabry's sturgeon (Acipenser dabryanus), also known as the Yangtze sturgeon, Changjiang sturgeon and river sturgeon, is a species of fish in the sturgeon family, Acipenseridae. [5] It is endemic to China and today restricted to the Yangtze River basin, [1] but was also recorded from the Yellow River basin in the past.
The Siberian sturgeon (Acipenser baerii) is a species of sturgeon in the family Acipenseridae.It is most present in all of the major Siberian river basins that drain northward into the Kara, Laptev and East Siberian Seas, including the Ob, Yenisei (which drains Lake Baikal via the Angara River) Lena, and Kolyma Rivers.