Taxon profile

species

Beluga
Huso huso (Linnaeus, 1758)

kingdom Animalia - animals » phylum Chordata - chordates » class Actinopterygii - ray-finned fishes » order Acipenseriformes » family Acipenseridae - sturgeons

Scientific synonyms

Acipenser albula Forster, 1767
Acipenser beluga Forster, 1767
Acipenser huso Linnaeus, 1758
Acipenser schypa Bonnaterre, 1788
Acipenser schypa Gmelin, 1789
Acipenser shyp Forster, 1767
Acipenser vallisnerii Molin, 1851
Huso huso caspicus Babushkin, 1942
Huso huso maeoticus Sal'nikov & Malyatskii, 1934
Huso huso orientalis Lelek, 1987

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Other names

= European Sturgeon
= Giant Sturgeon
= Great Sturgeon
= Hausen

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IUCN category:	Critically Endangered

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Author: Lukáš Jurek

Taxon in country check-lists^*

Slovakia ^†

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Links and literature

AQUATAB. World Wide Web electronic publication [species/11992] [as Huso huso (Linnaeus, 1758)]
Plíštil J. (Ed.) (2009): AQUATAB. World Wide Web electronic publication [http://aquatab.net]
Data retrieved on: 2010/01/17

ARKive [/beluga/huso-huso/]
ARKive [http://www.arkive.org]
Data retrieved on: 2010/12/16

Fauna Europaea 2.4 [304329] [as Huso huso (Linnaeus, 1758)]
de Jong, Y.S.D.M. (ed.): Fauna Europaea [http://www.faunaeur.org]
Data retrieved on: 2012/03/09

FishBase [2067]
Froese R., Pauly D. (eds.): FishBase [http://www.fishbase.org]

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2011.2 [10269] [as Huso huso (Linnaeus, 1758)]
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species [http://www.iucnredlist.org/]
Data retrieved on: 2012/05/26

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