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SpeciesAcipenseriformesAcipenseridae
Fish

🐟Kaluga

Huso dauricus (Georgi, 1775)

Der Kaluga-Hausen oder Sibirische Hausen (Sinosturio dauricus, Synonym: Huso dauricus) ist eine von sieben Arten aus der Gattung Sinosturio aus der Fischfamilie der Störe (Acipenseridae). Er kommt endemisch im Amur in Nordostasien an der Grenze von Russland und China vor. Die Art gehört, wie der Europäische Hausen (Huso huso), zu den größten im Süßwasser vorkommenden Fischen und ist heute vom Aussterben bedroht.

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Conservation status
CRCritically endangered

IUCN Red List assessment, 2022.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
550 kg
Body length
5.6 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
55 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Kaluga

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
550 kgrecord 1,000 kg · FishBase
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data quality: acceptable

Record: largest individual on record

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Body length
5.6 mmaximum recorded
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Source: FishBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

Maximum lifespan
55 yearsrecord 80 years · FishBase
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

Record: largest individual on record

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Trophic level
4.46
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Source: FishBase · v25.04, estimate table · CC BY-NC 4.0

Diet
carnivoreaverage
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From trophic level 4.46 (FishBase): <2.2 herbivore, 2.2–2.8 omnivore, >2.8 carnivore.

Danger to humans
harmless
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Source: FishBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

Volume l
550 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Kaluga yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›orderAcipenseriformes
  4. ›familyAcipenseridae
  5. ›genusHuso
  6. ›speciesHuso dauricus
Full lineage
  1. superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
  2. orderAcipenseriformes
  3. suborderAcipenseroidei
  4. familyAcipenseridae
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
  7. classActinopteri
  8. subclassChondrostei
  9. orderAcipenseriformes
  10. suborderAcipenseroidei
  11. familyAcipenseridae
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In other languages
达氏鳇 (zh), Kaluga-Hausen (de), калуга (bg), Huso dauricus (fr), szibériai viza (hu), Huso dauricus (it) … and 17 more languages
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