|Scientific Name:||Acipenser sinensis| |Species
Authority:||Gray, 1835| |Taxonomic Notes:||The Chinese Sturgeon
Acipenser sinensis is restricted to the main channel of the
Yangtze and the Pearl rivers and the East and South China Seas.
Though there is still disagreement about the taxonomy of the
Pearl and Yangtze River populations, Chinese scholars commonly
divide Chinese Sturgeon into two populations; one is the Pearl
River Chinese Sturgeon, which spawns in spring, and is close to
dying out. The other is the Yangtze River Chinese Sturgeon,
which spawns in autumn and still maintains a certain amount
below the Gezhouba Dam.| |Red List Category &
Criteria:||Critically Endangered A2bcd; B2ab(i,ii,iii,iv,v);
C2a(ii) ver 3.1| |Reviewer/s:||Pourkazemi, M., Zhang, H., Du, H.
& Smith, K.| The Chinese Sturgeon is a large anadromous species.
This species was historically recorded in southwestern Korea and
in western Kyushu, Japan and in the Yellow, Yangtze, Pear,
Mingjiang, and Qingtang rivers in China, but has been ex