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Amur sturgeon
Conservation status
Critically Endangered (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Acipenseriformes
Family:	Acipenseridae
Genus:	Acipenser
Species:	A. schrenckii
Binomial name
*Acipenser schrenckii* J. F. Brandt, 1869

The Amur sturgeon (Acipenser schrenckii) is a species of fish in the Acipenseridae family. It is found in China and Russia.

References

Sturgeon Specialist Group 1996. Acipenser schrenckii. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 3 August 2007.

Extant sturgeon and paddlefish species

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Subphylum Vertebrata
Superclass Osteichthyes
Subclass Chondrostei

Acipenseridae

Acipenser	Siberian sturgeon (A. baerii baerii) Baikal sturgeon (A. baerii baicalensis) Shortnose sturgeon (A. brevirostrum) Dabry's sturgeon (A. dabryanus) Lake sturgeon (A. fulvescens) Russian sturgeon (A. gueldenstaedtii) Green sturgeon (A. medirostris) Sakhalin sturgeon (A. mikadoi) Japanese sturgeon (A. multiscutatus) Adriatic sturgeon (A. naccarii) Bastard sturgeon (A. nudiventris) Gulf sturgeon (A. oxyrinchus desotoi) Atlantic sturgeon (A. oxyrinchus oxyrinchus) Persian sturgeon (A. persicus) Sterlet (A. ruthenus) *Amur sturgeon (A. schrenckii)* Chinese sturgeon (A. sinensis) Starry sturgeon (A. stellatus) European sea sturgeon (A. sturio) White sturgeon (A. transmontanus)

Huso	Kaluga (H. dauricus) Beluga (H. huso)

Pseudo- scaphirhynchus	Syr Darya sturgeon (P. fedtschenkoi) Dwarf sturgeon (P. hermanni) Amu Darya sturgeon (P. kaufmanni)

Scaphirhynchus	Pallid sturgeon (S. albus) Shovelnose sturgeon (S. platorynchus) Alabama sturgeon (S. suttkusi)

Polyodontidae

Polyodon	American paddlefish (P. spathula)

Psephurus	Chinese paddlefish (P. gladius)

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