Acipenser nudiventris Lovetsky 1828
Description
Acipenser nudiventris Lovetsky, 1828 [N]—Fringebarbel sturgeon
Taxonomy. Original description: Acipenser nudiventris Lovetsky, 1828: 78, pl. 6, fig. 2 [Aral Sea; no types known; original description reproduced in Berg (1905: 2, footnote)].— Afghanistan synonyms: None.—Revisions: Berg (1948: 66).—Illustration: Berg (1948: 68, figs. 55–56).
Status in Afghanistan. First record from Afghanistan by Berg (1948: 69); confirmed by Coad (1981: 8; 2014: 108; 2015: 227).—Afghanistan materials: None.
Distribution and habitat. Distribution in Afghanistan: Panj River (Amu Darya River system, into Aral Sea).— General distribution: Eastern Atlantic, Europe and Middle East: Basins of Black, Azov, Caspian and Aral seas and Sea of Marmara.—Habitat: This species is anadromous: juveniles move to the ocean or inland seas; mature specimens migrate back into rivers for spawning, which takes place in strong-current habitats in the main courses of large and deep rivers on stone or gravel bottoms. Freshwater, transitional water, marine.
Economic importance. Commercially important.
Conservation. Conservation status in Afghanistan: RE (Berg 1948).—IUCN: Critically endangered (CR) (Freyhof et al. 2022a).—Threats: FIT, HAB, CON.—High sensitivity to human activities.—Keystone species.—Decline status: Regionally exterminated.—High priority for conservation action.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Lovetsky
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Acipenseriformes
- Family
- Acipenseridae
- Genus
- Acipenser
- Species
- nudiventris
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Acipenser nudiventris Lovetsky, 1828 sec. Çiçek, Fricke, Eagderi, Sungur, Coad & Hamdard, 2023
References
- Lovetsky, A. (1828) On the fishes belonging to the sturgeon genus and inhabiting waters of the Russian Empire. Novyi Magazin, Estestvennoi Istorii, Fiziki, Khimii i Svedenii i Svedenii Ekologicheskikh, Izdannyi 1. Dviubskim, Part 2, 14 - 22 + 73 - 79 + 145 - 150.
- Berg, L. S. (1905) Die Fische von Turkestan. Scientific Results of the Aral Expedition. Izviestii Turkestanskago otdiela Russkago geograficheskago obschchestva, 4, i - xvi + 1 - 261, pls. 1 - 6.
- Berg, L. S. (1948) s. n. In: Ryby presnych vod SSSR i sopredelnych stan. [Freshwater fishes of the U. S. S. R. and adjacent countries]. Vol. 1. 4 th Edition. Opredeliteli po faune SSSR. [Guide to the fauna of the U. S. S. R.], Moskva. Freshwater fishes of the U. S. S. R. and adjacent countries No. 27. Russian Academy of Sciences, USSR, Moskva, 466 pp. [in Russian. English translation available, Israel Prog. Sci. Transl., Jerusalem, 1962, 504 pp.]
- Coad, B. W. (1981) Fishes of Afghanistan, an annoted checklist. National Museum of Canada Publications in Zoology, 14, i - v + 1 - 26.
- Coad, B. W. (2014) Fishes of Afghanistan. Pensoft Publishers, Sofia-Moscow. 393 pp.