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🐟Beluga sturgeon
O esturjão-beluga ou esturjão-branco (nome científico: Huso huso) é um peixe da família Acipenseridae (esturjões). É natural do mar Negro e do mar Cáspio e seus rios tributários. A espécie está sujeita a intensa pesca nestas zonas para a colheita das suas ovas para a produção de caviar beluga. Os estoques de caviar beluga de esturjão do Cáspio caíram mais de 90% nos últimos 20 anos (informação obtida em 2001) por causa da destruição dos locais de desova, poluição e o fim das leis rígidas de pesca da era soviética[carece de fontes]?. O Esturjão é um peixe primitivo que provavelmente existe na terra desde a época em que os dinossauros desapareceram[carece de fontes]?. Crescem durante toda a longa vida de mais de 100 anos, alcançando tamanhos extraordinários, mais de 6 metros e meio, e 1.500 kg.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2022.
- Body mass
- 1,140 kg
- Body length
- 2.15 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 118 years
Everything we know about the Beluga sturgeon
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass1,140 kgrecord 3,200 kg · FishBaseAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Record: largest individual on record
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
Body length2.15 mrecord 8 m · FishBasetypical adultFishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
Record: largest individual on record
Source: FishBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0
Maximum lifespan118 yearsrecord 118 years · FishBaseAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Record: largest individual on record
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
Trophic level4.42FishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: FishBase · v25.04, estimate table · CC BY-NC 4.0
DietcarnivoreaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
From trophic level 4.42 (FishBase): <2.2 herbivore, 2.2–2.8 omnivore, >2.8 carnivore.
Danger to humansharmlessFishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: FishBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0
Volume l1,140 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
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 Beluga sturgeon yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- 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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