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SpeciesAcipenseriformesAcipenseridae
Fish

🐟Kaluga

Huso dauricus (Georgi, 1775)

Esturjão-kaluga, ou kaluga (nome científico: Huso dauricus) é uma das duas espécies de Acipenseriformes endêmicas da bacia do Rio Amur (a outra é Acipenser schrenckii, o esturjão-do-rio-amur), situado na Rússia e na China. Esta é uma das maiores espécies de esturjão, e também uma das maiores espécies de peixe de água doce, atingindo um comprimento de 5,6 metros e um peso de 1 tonelada, durante o seu período de vida de até 90 anos.

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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
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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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