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356:of juveniles. The construction of
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752:Threatened fishes of the world:
727:Froese, R. and D. Pauly. (Eds.)
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759:Environmental Biology of Fishes
625:Environmental Biology of Fishes
594:Deeplyfish- fishes of the world
420:Wuhan Institute of Hydrobiology
401:China Three Gorges Corporation
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1619:Species endangered by damming
276:basin in the past. It was a
268:and today restricted to the
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992:A. oxyrinchus oxyrinchus
750:Gao, X., et al. (2009).
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825:sturgeon and paddlefish
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399:On June 7th, 2024, the
1609:Fish described in 1869
1604:Endemic fauna of China
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1209:American paddlefish (
1163:Shovelnose sturgeon (
983:A. oxyrinchus desotoi
646:Ecology and Evolution
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292:as of July 21, 2022.
248:), also known as the
35:Dabry's sturgeon
1233:Chinese paddlefish (
1130:Amu Darya sturgeon (
1112:Syr Darya sturgeon (
900:Shortnose sturgeon (
229:Sinosturio dabryanus
1311:Acipenser_dabryanus
1297:Acipenser dabryanus
1267:Acipenser dabryanus
990:Atlantic sturgeon (
963:Adriatic sturgeon (
954:Japanese sturgeon (
945:Sakhalin sturgeon (
891:Siberian sturgeon (
754:Acipenser dabryanus
730:Acipenser dabryanus
658:2018EcoEv...8.4173X
620:Acipenser dabryanus
500:: e.T231A61462199.
486:Acipenser dabryanus
416:Acipenser dabryanus
332:Conservation status
286:extinct in the wild
246:Acipenser dabryanus
207:Acipenser dabryanus
66:Extinct in the Wild
51:Conservation status
1172:Alabama sturgeon (
1026:Chinese sturgeon (
999:Persian sturgeon (
972:Bastard sturgeon (
929:A. gueldenstaedtii
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909:Dabry's sturgeon (
482:Qiwei, W. (2022).
447:Chinese paddlefish
441:Acipenser sinensis
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1079:H. dauricus
1028:A. sinensis
1010:A. ruthenus
1001:A. persicus
965:A. naccarii
862:Chondrostei
854:Superclass
781:3 September
350:overfishing
338:tributaries
84:Appendix II
1578:Categories
1235:P. gladius
947:A. mikadoi
850:Vertebrata
848:Subphylum
551:Froese, R.
458:References
394:extinction
382:wastewater
342:extirpated
296:Appearance
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1224:Psephurus
1046:A. sturio
1008:Sterlet (
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882:Acipenser
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555:Pauly, D.
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322:migration
278:food fish
183:Species:
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1200:Polyodon
1156:S. albus
1101:Pseudo-
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