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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

Other names

= European Sturgeon
= Giant Sturgeon
= Great Sturgeon
= Hausen

IUCN category:Critically Endangered

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Taxon in country check-lists*

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Links and literature

CZ 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
EN 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
CH DE EN FR IT NL PR SP FishBase [2067]
Froese R., Pauly D. (eds.): FishBase [http://www.fishbase.org]

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Explanations

species extinct in area described by check-list