Animalia > Chordata > Acipenseriformes > Acipenseridae > Acipenser > Acipenser transmontanusAcipenser transmontanus (White Sturgeon; Sacramento sturgeon; Pacific sturgeon; Oregon sturgeon; Columbia sturgeon)Synonyms: Acipenser aleutensis Language: Czech; Danish; Dutch; Finnish; French; German; Italian; Mandarin Chinese; Polish; Portuguese; Salish; Spanish; Swedish The white sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus), also known as the Pacific sturgeon, Oregon sturgeon, Columbia sturgeon, Sacramento sturgeon, and California white sturgeon, is a sturgeon (a fish of the family Acipenseridae) which lives along the west coast of North America from the Aleutian Islands to Central California. It is the largest freshwater fish in North America and is the third-largest species of sturgeon, after the beluga and the kaluga. The white sturgeon is known to reach a maximum size of 816 kg (1,799 lb) and 6.1 m (20 ft). |
| Adult Length [2] | 10.496 feet (320 cm) | | Brood Dispersal [2] | In the open | | Brood Egg Substrate [2] | Litho-pelagophils | | Brood Guarder [2] | No | | Litter Size [2] | 350,000 | | Maximum Longevity [2] | 104 years | | Migration [1] | Anadromous | | Water Biome [1] | Rivers and Streams, Coastal |  | | Adult Weight [3] | 989.44 lbs (448.80 kg) | | | Diet [1] | Carnivore | | | Female Maturity [2] | 22 years 6 months | | Male Maturity [3] | 16 years 6 months |
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| Parasitized by | | | Acrolichanus auriculatus | [6] | | Amphilina japonica | [6] | | Corynosoma strumosum | [6] | | Cystoopsis acipenseri | [4] | | Cystoopsis acipenseris | [6] | Warning (2): Undefined array key "controller" [APP/View/Helper/LinkObfuscatorHelper.php, line 79]Code Context
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 Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Myers, 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♦ 2Frimpong, 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. ♦ 3de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774 ♦ 4Jorrit 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. ♦ 5Feeding Ecology of Juvenile White Sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus) in the Lower Columbia River, George T. McCabe, Jr., Robert L. Emmett, and Susan A. Hinton, Northwest Science, Vol. 67, No. 3, 1993, pp. 170-180 ♦ 6Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
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
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