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Common names: [No common name]
Occurrence: native
Salinity: freshwater
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Uses: no uses
Comments: Mouths of Amu Darya upriver to Termez on the Afghan border with Uzbekistan (Ref. 39701).
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Country Information: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/af.html
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Occurrences: Occurrences Point map
Main Ref: Coad, B.W., 1981
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Common names from other countries

短尾拟铲鲟, Small Amu-Dar Shovelnose Sturgeon, Nibylopstons amu-daryjski, ... more

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> Acipenseriformes (Sturgeons and paddlefishes) > Acipenseridae (Sturgeons) > Acipenserinae
Etymology: Pseudoscaphirhynchus: Greek, pseudes = false + Greek, skaphe = boat + Greek, rhyngchos = snout (Ref. 45335).

Issue
Species of the genus Pseudoscaphirhynchus belong to the subfamily Acipenserinae, and not Scaphirhynchinae as it was previously considered (V. Birstein, pers. comm. 03/05 ).

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ekologi

; sötvatten; brackvatten bottenlevande; flodvandrande (Ref. 51243). Temperate

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Former USSR and Asia: Endemic to the basin of Amu Dariya and Sir Dariya rivers. Registered in the 1984 USSR Red Book; 1985 Turkmen SSR Red Data Book; 1996 IUCN Red List (Ref. 35930).

Size / Vikt / Age

Maturity: L_m ? range ? - ? cm
Max length : 27.5 cm TL hane/ej könsbestämd; (Ref. 35930); publicerad maxvikt: 50.50 g (Ref. 35930); rapporterad maxålder: 6 år (Ref. 35930)

A rare and endangered species; smallest sturgeon; sensitive to chemicals in the water Ref. 35930).

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Robins, C.R., R.M. Bailey, C.E. Bond, J.R. Brooker, E.A. Lachner, R.N. Lea and W.B. Scott, 1991. World fishes important to North Americans. Exclusive of species from the continental waters of the United States and Canada. Am. Fish. Soc. Spec. Publ. (21):243 p. (Ref. 4537)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

Critically Endangered (CR) (A2c); Date assessed: 14 September 2019

CITES (Ref. 128078)

Appendix II: International trade monitored

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Appendix II: Migratory species conserved through agreements

Threat to humans

Harmless

Human uses

Fiskeri: saknar intresse

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Estimates based on models

Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804): PD₅₀ = 0.6250 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].

Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00331 (0.00148 - 0.00739), b=3.16 (2.98 - 3.34), in cm Total Length, based on LWR estimates for this (Sub)family-body shape (Ref. 93245).

Trofisk nivå (Ref. 69278): 3.2 ±0.5 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives

Resiliens (Ref. 120179): Mellan, lägsta populationsfördubblingstid 1,4-4,4 år (tmax=6).

Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153): Low vulnerability (18 of 100).

Pseudoscaphirhynchus hermanni (Kessler, 1877)