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Acipenser medirostris (Green sturgeon; Green Japanese sturgeon; Barbel sturgeon)

Synonyms: Acipenser acutirostris
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Wikipedia Abstract

The green sturgeon (Acipenser medirostris) is a species of sturgeon native to the Pacific Ocean, from China and Russia, over into Canada and the United States.
View Wikipedia Record: Acipenser medirostris

Endangered Species

Status: Endangered
View IUCN Record: Acipenser medirostris

Attributes

Adult Length [1]  8.856 feet (270 cm)
Brood Dispersal [1]  In the open
Brood Egg Substrate [1]  Litho-pelagophils
Brood Guarder [1]  No
Litter Size [1]  140,000
Maximum Longevity [1]  65 years
Migration [2]  Anadromous
Diet [2]  Carnivore
Female Maturity [1]  20 years

Protected Areas

Prey / Diet

Ammodytes hexapterus (Stout sand lance)[3]
Neomysis awatschensis[3]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Amphilina japonica[4]
Diclybothrium armatum[4]
Paradiclybothrium pacificum[4]

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Frimpong, E.A., and P. L. Angermeier. 2009. FishTraits: a database of ecological and life-history traits of freshwater fishes of the United States. Fisheries 34:487-495.
♦ 2Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 3Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 4Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0