Familie Acipenseridae |
English Name |
Distribution |
Acipenser
baerii |
Siberian
Sturgeon |
Main
Rivers Siberia |
Acipenser
baerii barerii |
Siberian
Sturgeon |
Ob
River basin |
Acipenser
baerii stenorhynchus |
Lena
River Sturgeon |
Basins
of East Siberian River, Lena, Yenisey, Indigirka, Anadyr |
Acipenser
baerii baicalensis |
Baikal
Sturgeon |
Lake
Baikal |
Acipenser
brevirotstom |
Shortnose
Sturgeon |
Rivers
and Ocean along East coast of
North America, from Indian River to St.
John River |
Acipenser
dabryanus |
Yangtze
or Dabry's Sturgeon |
Yangtze
River System |
Acipenser
fulvescens |
Lake
Sturgeon |
Great
Lakes of Southern Cananda |
Acipenser
Gueldenstaedti |
Russian
Sturgeon / Ossetra |
Black
Sea , Azov, Caspian and Rivers entering
into them as Danube, Dnepr, Volga, Ural e.g |
Acipenser
medriostris |
Green
Sturgeon |
Pacific
Coast of North America from
Aleutian Islands and Golf of Alaska to
Ensenada , Mexico |
Acipenser
mikaido |
Sakhalin
Sturgeon |
Pacific
Ocean from Amur River to Northern
Japan, Korea and Bering Sea, Tumin River |
Acipenser
naccari |
Adriatic
Sturgeon |
Adriatic
Sea, Po and Adige River |
Acipenser
nudiventris |
Ship
Sturgeon |
Aral,
Caspian, Black Sea and entering Rivers |
Acipenser
oxyrinchus |
Atlantic
Sturgeon |
Atlantic
Ocean ( Canada , USA |
Acipenser
o. oxyrinchus |
Atlantic
Sturgeon |
East
coast North America from Florida to Hamilton |
Acipenser
persicus |
Persian
Sturgeon |
Caspian
and Black Sea , entering Rivers |
Acipenser
ruthenus |
Sterlet |
Drainages
of main rivers entering the
Black & Caspian sea |
Acipenser
schrencki |
Amur
River Sturgeon |
Amur
River System |
Acipenser
sinensis |
Chinese
Sturgeon |
Yangtze
River (*extinct 2005) |
Acipenser
stellatus |
Sevruga |
Caspian,
Azov, Black + Aegean Seas and entering Rivers |
Acipenser
sturio |
Atlantic
Sturgeon |
Baltic,
Eastern North America,
Mediterranean, Black Sea |
Acipenser
transmontanus |
White
Sturgeon |
Rivers
and Pacific Coast of North America
from Alaska to Baja |
Acipenser
huso dauricus |
Kaluga
Sturgeon |
Amur
River system |
Acipenser
Huso Huso |
Giant
Sturgeon Beluga
Sturgeon |
Caspian,
Black, Adriatic Sea and entering Rivers |
Pseudoscaphirhynchus
fedtschenkoi |
Syr-Dar
Shovelnose Sturgeon |
Syr-Dar
River ( Kazakhstan, Central Asia
) |
Pseudoscaphirhynchus hermanni |
small
Amu-Dar Shovelnose |
Amu-Darya
River ( Uzbekistan ) |
Pseudoscaphirhynchus kaufmanni |
large
Amu-Dar Shovelnose |
Amu-Darya
River ( Uzbekistan ) |
Scaphirhynchus
albus |
Pallid
Sturgeon |
Missouri
and Mississippi basins |
Scaphirhynchus
platorynchus |
Shovelnose
Sturgeon |
Missouri
and Mississippi basins |
Scaphirhynchus
suttkusi |
Alabama
Sturgeon |
Mobil
Basin in Alabama |
Family
Polyodontidae Polyodon spathula |
North
American Paddlefish |
Mississippi
River System and Missouri and its tributaries |
Psephurus
gladius |
Chinese
Paddlefish |
Yangtze
River |
This
table is copied from Cordon Noirian / Peter Weiss booklet:
" The Prized Pearls of the Sea "