Japanese sturgeon | |
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Conservation status | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Acipenseriformes |
Family: | Acipenseridae |
Genus: | Acipenser |
Species: | A. multiscutatus |
Binomial name | |
Acipenser multiscutatus (S. Tanaka (I), 1908)[2] |
The Japanese sturgeon, Acipenser multiscutatus, is a sturgeon indigenous to Japan, and the Northwest Pacific. It inhabits fresh, brackish and salt water.[1] Some ichthyologists consider it to be the same species as the Amur sturgeon (Acipenser schrenckii).[3]