Acipenser

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Acipenser
Temporal range: 70.6–Present 
Ma
Atlantic sturgeon
(Acipenser oxyrinchus oxyrinchus)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Acipenseriformes
Family: Acipenseridae
Subfamily:
Acipenserinae
Genus: Acipenser
Linnaeus, 1758
Type species
Linnaeus
, 1758
Species

17, see text

Synonyms[1]
  • Antacea Bory de St. Vincent 1822 non Rafinesque 1815
  • Antaceus Heckel ex Fitzinger & Heckel 1836 non Bonaparte 1846
  • Dinoctus Rafinesque 1818
  • Ellops Gistl 1848 non Mining 1832
  • Helops Brandt & Ratzeburg 1833 non Agassiz 1846 non Browne 1789 non Fabricius 1775 non Müller 1835
  • Sinosturio Jaekel 1929; Sturio Müller 1836
  • Sturio Rafinesque 1810
  • Acipenser (Sterletus) Rafinesque 1820
  • Sterletus (Rafinesque 1820) Brandt & Ratzeburg 1833
  • Sterleta Güldenstädt 1772
  • Acipenser (Euacipenser) Murgoci 1942
  • Acipenser (Gladostomus) Holly 1936
  • Acipenser (Lioniscus) (Heckel & Fitzinger 1836) Bonaparte 1846
  • Lioniscus Heckel & Fitzinger 1836
  • Acipenser (Parasinosturio) Artyukin 1995
  • Acipenser (Shipa) Brandt 1869

Acipenser is a

threatened.[2]
Several species also known to enter near-shore marine environments in the Atlantic, Arctic and Pacific oceans.

This is an ancient genus, with fossil species known as far back as the

Chicxulub impact, the beginning of the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event.[3]

Living species

There are 17 living species:[2]

Fossil species

There are 9 species known from fossil remains:[4]

References

  1. ^ "Acipenseridae" (PDF). Deeplyfish- fishes of the world. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 September 2017. Retrieved 18 May 2017.
  2. ^ a b Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). Species of Acipenser in FishBase. May 2019 version.
  3. ^
    doi:10.1017/jpa.2022.81
    .
  4. ^ "Fossilworks: Acipenser". fossilworks.org. Retrieved 17 December 2021.

External links

  • Data related to Acipenser at Wikispecies
  • Media related to Acipenser at Wikimedia Commons
  • The dictionary definition of acipenser at Wiktionary
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