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🐟Dabry's sturgeon
Dabry's sturgeon, also known as the Yangtze sturgeon, Changjiang sturgeon and river sturgeon, is a species of fish in the sturgeon family, Acipenseridae. It is endemic to China and today restricted to the Yangtze River basin, but was also recorded from the Yellow River basin in the past. It was a food fish of commercial importance. Its populations declined drastically, and since 1988, it was designated an endangered species on the Chinese Red List in Category I and commercial harvest was banned. It has been officially declared extinct in the wild by the IUCN as of 21 July 2022.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2022.
- Body mass
- not recorded
- Body length
- 0.32 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 100 years
Extinct in the wild
Assessed Extinct in the Wild on the IUCN Red List, 2022. The only known survivors live in captivity or outside their natural range.
Everything we know about the Dabry's sturgeon
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body length0.32 mrecord 2.5 m · FishBasetypical adultFishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
Record: largest individual on record
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Maximum lifespan100 yearsAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
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Trophic level2FishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
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DietherbivoreaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
From trophic level 2 (FishBase): <2.2 herbivore, 2.2–2.8 omnivore, >2.8 carnivore.
Danger to humansharmlessFishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
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average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Dabry's sturgeon yet: body mass, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›orderAcipenseriformes
- ›familyAcipenseridae
- ›genusAcipenser
- ›speciesAcipenser dabryanus
- superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
- orderAcipenseriformes
- suborderAcipenseroidei
- familyAcipenseridae
All 11 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
- classActinopteri
- subclassChondrostei
- orderAcipenseriformes
- suborderAcipenseroidei
- familyAcipenseridae
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