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Species
Critically EndangeredAdriatic sturgeon
Species
- PhylumChordata
- ClassChondrostei
- OrderAcipenseriformes
- FamilyAcipenseridae
Habitatmarine, brackish, freshwater
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- taxon rank
- species
- IUCN conservation status
- Critically Endangered
- taxon name
- Acipenser naccarii
- Commons category
- Acipenser naccarii
- taxon common name
- Adriatic Sturgeon
- short name
- A. naccarii
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Encyclopedic overview
The Adriatic sturgeon (Huso naccarii) is a species of fish in the family Acipenseridae. It is native to the Adriatic Sea and large rivers which flow in it of Albania, Greece, Italy, Montenegro, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Slovenia.
Prior to 2025, it was placed in the genus Acipenser, but this placement was found to be paraphyletic, and it is more accurately placed in the genus Huso.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Adriatic sturgeon” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.