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SpeciesAcipenseriformesAcipenseridae
Fish

🐟Lake sturgeon

Acipenser fulvescens Rafinesque, 1817

Acipenser fulvescens ook bekend als meersteur is een straalvinnige vissensoort uit de familie van de steuren (Acipenseridae). De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort werd voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 1817 door Constantine Samuel Rafinesque. De soort staat op de Rode Lijst van de IUCN als bedreigd, beoordelingsjaar 2022..

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Also called
Rock sturgeon
Conservation status
ENEndangered

IUCN Red List assessment, 2022.

Population trendUnknown
Key measurements
Body mass
70 kg
Body length
0.97 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
152 years
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Everything we know about the Lake sturgeon

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

Body mass
70 kgrecord 125 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
0.97 mrecord 2.74 m · FishBasetypical adult
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Record: largest individual on record

Source: FishBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

Maximum lifespan
152 yearsrecord 152 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

Gestation
6 days
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

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

Litter size
about 350000
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

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

Trophic level
3.28
FishBase
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Source: FishBase · v25.04, estimate table · CC BY-NC 4.0

Diet
carnivoreaverage
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From trophic level 3.28 (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
70 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 Lake sturgeon yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›orderAcipenseriformes
  4. ›familyAcipenseridae
  5. ›genusAcipenser
  6. ›speciesAcipenser fulvescens
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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See-Stör (de), Acipenser fulvescens (es), järvisampi (fi), Esturgeon jaune (fr), Acipenser fulvescens (it), Jesiotr jeziorny (pl) … and 15 more languages
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