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Species
Extinct in the WildYangtze sturgeon
Species
- PhylumChordata
- ClassChondrostei
- OrderAcipenseriformes
- FamilyAcipenseridae
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Wikidata facts
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- taxon rank
- species
- IUCN conservation status
- extinct in the wild
- taxon name
- Acipenser dabryanus
- Commons category
- Acipenser dabryanus
- taxon common name
- 达氏鲟
- taxon range
- Yangtze
- short name
- A. dabryanus
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Encyclopedic overview
Dabry's sturgeon (Sinosturio dabryanus), also known as the Yangtze sturgeon, Changjiang sturgeon and river sturgeon, is a species of fish in the sturgeon family, Acipenseridae. It is endemic to China and today restricted to the Yangtze River basin, but was also recorded from the Yellow River basin in the past. It was a food fish of commercial importance. Its populations declined drastically, and since 1988, it was designated an endangered species on the Chinese Red List in Category I and commercial harvest was banned. It has been officially declared extinct in the wild by the IUCN as of 21 July 2022.
Taxonomy
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dabry's sturgeon” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.