Acipenseriformes

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{{Taxobox | color = pink | name = Acipenseriformes | image = Sturgeon2.jpg | image_width = 250px | image_caption = Atlantic sturgeon
Acipenser oxyrinchus oxyrinchus | regnum = Animalia | phylum = Chordata | classis = Actinopterygii | ordo = Acipenseriformes | subdivision_ranks = Families | subdivision = Acipenseridae (sturgeons)
Polyodontidae (paddlefishes)
Chondrosteidae extinct
Errolichthyidae extinct }}

Acipenseriformes is an order of primitive ray-finned fishes that includes the sturgeons and paddlefishes, as well as some extinct families.

Acipenseriform skeletons are largely cartilage.

Systematics

( Acipenseriformes ):

Family Acipenseridae

• Subfamily Acipenserinae
  • Genus Acipenser
    • Acipenser baerii
      • Siberian sturgeon, Acipenser baerii baerii
      • Baikal sturgeon, Acipenser baerii baicalensis
    • Shortnose sturgeon, Acipenser brevirostrum (USA)
    • Yangtze sturgeon, Acipenser dabryanus
    • Lake sturgeon, Acipenser fulvescens (USA)
    • Russian sturgeon, Acipenser gueldenstaedtii
    • Green sturgeon, Acipenser medirostris
    • Sakhalin sturgeon, Acipenser mikadoi
    • Japanese sturgeon, Acipenser multiscutatus
    • Adriatic sturgeon, Acipenser naccarii
    • Fringebarbel sturgeon, Acipenser nudiventris
    • Acipenser oxyrinchus (USA)
      • Gulf sturgeon, Acipenser oxyrinchus desotoi
      • Atlantic sturgeon, Acipenser oxyrinchus oxyrinchus
    • Persian sturgeon, Acipenser persicus
    • Sterlet, Acipenser ruthenus
    • Amur sturgeon, Acipenser schrenckii
    • Chinese sturgeon, Acipenser sinensis
    • Starry sturgeon, Acipenser stellatus
    • European sturgeon, Acipenser sturio (also [wrongly] "Baltic sturgeon")
    • White sturgeon, Acipenser transmontanus

• • Genus Huso
    • Beluga sturgeon, Huso huso
    • Kaluga sturgeon, Huso dauricus

• Subfamily Scaphirhynchinae

• • Genus Scaphirhynchus
    • Pallid sturgeon, Scaphirhynchus albus
    • Shovelnose sturgeon, Scaphirhynchus platorynchus
    • Alabama sturgeon, Scaphirhynchus suttkusi

• • Genus Pseudosaphirhynchus
    • Dwarf sturgeon, Pseudoscaphirhynchus hermanni
    • Syr Darya sturgeon, Pseudoscaphirhynchus fedtschenkoi
    • Amu Darya sturgeon, Pseudoscaphirhynchus kaufmanni

• Family Polyodontidae (Paddlefish)
  • • Genus Polyodon
      • American paddlefish, Polyodon spathula (USA)
    • Genus Psephurus
      • Chinese paddlefish, Psephurus gladius

(Source: http://www.fishbase.org)

References

• Martin Hochleithner and Joern Gessner, The Sturgeons and Paddlefishes of the World: Biology and Aquaculture
• Martin Hochleithner, Joern Gessner, and Sergej Podushka, The Bibliography of Acipenseriformes

External links

• Literature list:[1]
• 03.01.2006: Exporters to strengthen controls and promote sustainable fishing before CITES can publish 2006 export quotasde:Störartige

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