| 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] |
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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]