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Acipenseridae
Amu Darya sturgeon
Pseudoscaphirhynchus kaufmanni
Sturgeon between Fresh and Salt Water
- Temperate
- Lower river
- Regional distribution
- Asia (unspecified)
- Large
- Temperate fish
Temperate
Regional distribution
LargeThe Amu Darya sturgeon or false shovelnose sturgeon (Pseudoscaphirhynchus kaufmanni) is a critically endangered species of fish in the family Acipenseridae. It is found in Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and perhaps Afghanistan. It inhabits quite shallow flowing waters that are turbid and muddy.
- Family
- Acipenseridae
- Genus
- Pseudoscaphirhynchus
- Maximum length
- 75 cm
- Distribution
- Asia: Former USSR: Amu Darya River from the Pyandzh to the mouths and lower tributaries. Sometimes in the brackish water of Taldyk Bay, the delta of the Amu Darya in the Aral Sea. Considered close to extinction (Ref. 6866 ). Registered in the 1984 USSR Red Book; 1985 Turkmen SSR Red Data Book; 1996 IUCN Red List (Ref. 35930 ).
- Conservation status
- CRCritically Endangered
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