Acipenser sturio

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family
ANIMALIA CHORDATA ACTINOPTERYGII ACIPENSERIFORMES ACIPENSERIDAE

Scientific Name: Acipenser sturio
Species Authority: Linnaeus, 1758
Common Name/s:
English Baltic Sturgeon, Common Sturgeon
French Esturgeon Commun
Spanish Esturión Común

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria: Critically Endangered   A2d   ver 2.3
Year Assessed: 1996
Annotations:
Needs updating
Assessor/s Sturgeon Specialist Group
History:
1994 Endangered (Groombridge 1994)
1990 Endangered (IUCN 1990)
1988 Endangered (IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre 1988)

Geographic Range [top]

Countries:
Native:
Albania; France; Georgia; Turkey; United Kingdom
Possibly extinct:
Algeria; Belgium; Bulgaria; Croatia; Estonia; Finland; Germany; Greece; Hungary; Iceland; Ireland; Italy; Latvia; Lithuania; Montenegro; Morocco; Netherlands; Norway; Poland; Portugal; Romania; Russian Federation; Spain; Sweden; Switzerland; Ukraine
Regionally extinct:
Czech Republic; Denmark
FAO Marine Fishing Areas:
Native:
Atlantic – northeast;  Mediterranean and Black Sea

Population [top]

Habitat and Ecology [top]

Systems: Freshwater; Marine

Threats [top]

Conservation Actions [top]

Citation: Sturgeon Specialist Group 1996. Acipenser sturio. In: IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 02 December 2008.
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