Acipenser medirostris Ayres 1854
Description
Acipenser medirostris Ayres, 1854.
Green Sturgeon. To 270 cm (108 in) TL (Moyle 2002). Peter the Great Bay, Sea of Japan (Antonenko et al. 2003) to Tohoku, Japan (Hosoya in Nakabo 2002) to Pacific coast of Kamchatka, Bering Sea, and Gulf of Alaska (Mecklenburg et al. 2002) to just south of Bahía de San Quintin, northern Baja California (Rosales-Casián and Almeda-Jáuregui 2009). Bering Sea records have been rare and not well documented (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). On 4 June 2005, a Green Sturgeon was caught in Kuskokwim Bay off Kwigillingok (59°51’N, 162°08’W) (Love et al. 2005). In addition, a few Green Sturgeon have been captured in the lower Yukon River which enters the Bering Sea near Norton Sound (Randy Brown, pers. comm. to M.L.). Depth: to 167 m (548 ft) at sea (NWFSC-FRAM). Anadromous.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Acipenseridae
- Genus
- Acipenser
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Acipenseriformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Ayres
- Species
- medirostris
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Acipenser medirostris Ayres, 1854 sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Moyle, P. B. (2002) Inland Fishes of California. Revised and Expanded. University of California Press, Berkeley.
- Antonenko, D. V., Kalchugin, P. V., Izmyatinskii, D. V. & Kim, L. N. (2003) On the occurrence of cold-water species of fish, rare for Peter the Great Bay (the Sea of Japan). Journal of Ichthyology, 43, 54 - 57.
- Nakabo, T. (Ed.). (2002) Fishes of Japan with Pictorial Keys to the Species. Tokai University Press, Tokyo.
- Rosales-Casian, J. A. & Almeda-Jauregui, C. (2009) Unusual occurrence of a green sturgeon, Acipenser medirostris, at El Socorro, Baja California, Mexico. CalCOFI Reports, 50, 169 - 171.
- Love, M. S., Mecklenburg, C. W., Mecklenburg, T. A. & Thorsteinson, L. K. (2005) Resource inventory of marine and estuarine fishes of the West Coast and Alaska: a checklist of North Pacific and Arctic Ocean species from Baja California to the Alaska-Yukon Border. United States Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, Biological Resources Divition, Seattle, OCS Study MMS 2005 - 030 and USGS / NBII 2005 - 001.