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Acipenser
Linnaeus, 1758
(fish)
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Entity:
Acipenserini (Tribe)
..Acipenser (Genus)
....†Acipenser albertensis (Species)
....Acipenser baerii (Species)
....Acipenser brevirostrum (Species) - pinkster
....Acipenser dabryanus (Species) - Yangtze sturgeon
....Acipenser fulvescens (Species) - lake sturgeon
....Acipenser gueldenstaedtii (Species) - Azov-Black Sea sturgeon
....Acipenser medirostris (Species) - green sturgeon
....Acipenser mikadoi (Species) - Sakhalin sturgeon
....Acipenser multiscutatus (Species) - Japanese sturgeon
....Acipenser naccarii (Species) - Adriatic sturgeon
....Acipenser nudiventris (Species) - ship sturgeon
....†Acipenser ornatus (Species)
....Acipenser oxyrinchus (Species)
....Acipenser persicus (Species) - Persian sturgeon
....Acipenser ruthenus (Species) - sterlet
....Acipenser schrenckii (Species) - Amur sturgeon
....Acipenser sinensis (Species) - Chinese sturgeon
....Acipenser stellatus (Species) - sevruga
....Acipenser sturio (Species) - common sturgeon
....†Acipenser toliapicus (Species)
....Acipenser transmontanus (Species) - white sturgeon
Authorship
SN2000 author citation
:
C. Linnaeus, 1758
Original name, rank & spelling
:
Linnaeus, C. 1758.
Syst. Nat.
(ed. 10)
1
: 237.
Types
Type of
:
Acipenseridae
(Family)
Bonaparte, 1831
Ref:
R. Fricke et al. (eds.), 2021
: 9 Apr 2025; 22 Oct 2012.
[inferred]
Type of
:
Acipenseriformes
(Order)
Berg, 1940
Type of
:
Acipenserinae
(Subfamily)
Bonaparte, 1832
Type of
:
Acipenseroidei
(Suborder)
Variants
Unavailable name
:
Acipenser
(Genus)
nom. inval.
Synonyms
Synonymous name (objective)
:
Sturio
(Genus)
Rafinesque, 1810
Ref:
R. Fricke et al. (eds.), 2021
: 11 May 2024.
Vernacular Names (Dutch)
Full name
:
steuren
Ref:
B. Grzimek (ed.), 1973-1975
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Last updated:
28 Aug 2026