Acipenser gueldenstaedtii Brandt & Ratzeburg, 1833

Çiçek, Erdoğan, Jawad, Laith, Eagderi, Soheil, Esmaeili, Hamid Reza, Mouludi-Saleh, Atta, Sungur, Sevil & Fricke, Ronald, 2023, Freshwater fishes of Iraq: a revised and updated annotated checklist- 2023, Zootaxa 5357 (1), pp. 1-49 : 5

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5357.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:7CDE221A-1E73-416D-A984-23E64D9451A6

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10018614

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/D65887E4-FFAF-FF81-98C8-D76AFD0FFC9D

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Plazi

scientific name

Acipenser gueldenstaedtii Brandt & Ratzeburg, 1833
status

 

Acipenser gueldenstaedtii Brandt & Ratzeburg, 1833 View in CoL [I]—Russian sturgeon

Taxonomy. Original description: Acipenser gueldenstaedtii Brandt & Ratzeburg, 1833: 13 View in CoL , Pl. 3 (figs. 2, 2A–E) [Caspian Sea and tributaries; Black Sea; no types known].— Iraq synonyms: None.—Revisions: Berg (1948: 78).—Illustration: Kottelat & Freyhof (2007: 51, fig.).

Status in Iraq. First record from Iraq by Jawad et al. (2021).—Iraq materials: None.

Distribution and habitat. Distribution in Iraq: Euphrates River, west of Iraq.—General distribution: Eastern Atlantic; Europe and the Middle East: Basins of Sea of Marmara, Black Sea, Sea of Azov, and Caspian Sea and adjacent watersheds; introduced elsewhere.—Habitat: Marine habitat for this species includes shallow coastal and estuarine zones. In freshwater, it occurs in deep parts of large rivers with moderate to swift currents and spawns in strong currents (1–1.5 m /s) in large and deep rivers on a stone or gravel bottom. Freshwater, brackish, marine.

Economic importance. Commercially important.

Reasons of introduction. Aquaculture/research.

Conservation. Not relevant (introduced species).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Actinopteri

Order

Acipenseriformes

Family

Acipenseridae

Genus

Acipenser

Loc

Acipenser gueldenstaedtii Brandt & Ratzeburg, 1833

Çiçek, Erdoğan, Jawad, Laith, Eagderi, Soheil, Esmaeili, Hamid Reza, Mouludi-Saleh, Atta, Sungur, Sevil & Fricke, Ronald 2023
2023
Loc

Acipenser gueldenstaedtii

Brandt & Ratzeburg 1833: 13
1833
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