White sturgeon

White sturgeon
A white sturgeon at the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife's Sturgeon Center at Bonneville Dam on the Columbia River. This fish is also known to be euryhaline. It’s closely related to lake sturgeon and short nose sturgeon.
CITES Appendix II (CITES)[2]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Acipenseriformes
Family: Acipenseridae
Genus: Acipenser
Species:
A. transmontanus
Binomial name
Acipenser transmontanus

White sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus) is a species of sturgeon in the family Acipenseridae of the order Acipenseriformes. They are an anadromous (migratory) fish species ranging in the Eastern Pacific; from the Gulf of Alaska to Monterey, California. However, some are landlocked in the Columbia River Drainage, Montana, and Lake Shasta in California, with reported sightings in northern Baja California, Mexico.[3]

  1. ^ Crossman, J.; Hildebrand, L. (2022). "Acipenser transmontanus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2022: e.T234A97440736. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2022-1.RLTS.T234A97440736.en. Retrieved 21 July 2022.
  2. ^ "Appendices | CITES". cites.org. Retrieved 2022-01-14.
  3. ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Acipenser transmontanus". FishBase. October 2017 version.