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Acipenser dabryanus (Dabry's Sturgeon; River sturgeon; Sturgeon; Yangtze sturgeon)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Dabry's sturgeon (Acipenser dabryanus) is a species of fish in the sturgeon family, Acipenseridae. Other common names include Yangtze sturgeon, Chiangjiang sturgeon, and river sturgeon. It is endemic to the Yangtze River Basin in China. It was a food fish of commercial importance. Its populations declined drastically, and in the early 1980s, it was designated an endangered species and commercial harvest was banned. It has been listed as a critically endangered species by the IUCN since 1996.
View Wikipedia Record: Acipenser dabryanus

Endangered Species

Status: Extinct in the wild
View IUCN Record: Acipenser dabryanus

Attributes

Maximum Longevity [2]  100 years
Migration [1]  Anadromous

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Diplostomum hupehensis[3]
Diplostomum mergi[3]
Heterosentis parasiluri[3]
Neotegorhynchus cyprini[3]

External References

Citations

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.
3Gibson, 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