False shovelnose sturgeon

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False shovelnose sturgeon
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Acipenseriformes
Family: Acipenseridae
Genus: Pseudoscaphirhynchus
Species: P. kaufmanni
Binomial name
Pseudoscaphirhynchus kaufmanni
Kessler ex. Bogdanov, 1874

The false shovelnose sturgeon or large amu-dar shovelnose sturgeon (Pseudoscaphirhynchus kaufmanni) is a species of fish in the Acipenseridae family. It is found in Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.

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