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Sterlet
Acipenser ruthenus Linnaeus, 1758
Also calledCega (ron) · Cigã (ron) · Esterlete (spa) · Esturgeon de Sibérie (fra) · Esturgeon du Danube, Sterlet (fra) · Esturión de Siberia (spa) · Jeseter malý (ces) · Kecsege (hun) · Sterlet (deu) · Sterlet (fra) · Sterlet (dan) · Sterlet a. czeczuga (pol) · Sterlett (deu) · Sterlett (swe)
First described in: Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. <em>Editio decima, reformata [10th revised edition], vol. 1: 824 pp. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae.</em>
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
description
Common name. Sterlet sturgeon Taxonomy. Original description: Acipenser ruthenus Linnaeus, 1758: 237 [Danube River; holotype: NRM 96]. Revisions. Berg (1948: 70). Illustrations. Kottelat & Freyhof (2007: 55, fig.).
Freshwater lamprey and fishes of Iran: Reappraisal and updated checklist with a note on Eagderi et al. (2022)
distribution
Distribution in Iran. — Distribution in River Basin: Caspian Sea. — Distribution in Ecoregions: 434 - Kura-South Caspian Drainages, 450 - Turan Plain, 452 - Caspian Marine. Status in Iran. [Native]. — Mahi-ye kaviar. — Reported from the middle and South Caspian Sea by Naseka and Bogutskaya (2009) but not confirmed by specimens for Iran by Esmaeili et al. (2017 a, 2018); Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. (2020); Eagderi et al. (2022). — Iran material: None. Conservation. — IUCN: EN.
Freshwater lamprey and fishes of Iran: Reappraisal and updated checklist with a note on Eagderi et al. (2022)
description
first record Mentioned for Uruguay in T (p. 19) remarks introduced exotic species!
Check List of the Freshwater Fishes of Uruguay (CLOFF-UY).
distribution
origin Arctic rivers; Europe and Middle East: Black Sea, Sea of Azov, White Sea and Caspian Sea watersheds
Check List of the Freshwater Fishes of Uruguay (CLOFF-UY).
Where it has been recorded
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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2402168.