Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
Author
Love, Milton S.
0000-0003-0981-0061
love@lifesci.ucsb.edu
Author
Bizzarro, Joseph J.
0000-0002-2412-9357
joe.bizzarro@noaa.gov
Author
Cornthwaite, Maria
0000-0002-1528-3272
maria.cornthwaite@dfo-mpo.gc.ca
Author
Frable, Benjamin W.
0000-0003-4525-0671
bfrable@ucsd.edu
Author
Maslenikov, Katherine P.
0000-0003-0981-0061
love@lifesci.ucsb.edu
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Zootaxa
2021
2021-10-19
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Acipenser medirostris
Ayres, 1854
.
Green Sturgeon
. To
270 cm
(
108 in
) TL (
Moyle 2002
). Peter the Great Bay, Sea of
Japan
(
Antonenko
et al.
2003
) to Tohoku,
Japan
(Hosoya in
Nakabo 2002
) to Pacific coast of Kamchatka, Bering Sea, and Gulf of Alaska (Mecklenburg
et al.
2002) to just south of Bahía de San Quintin, northern Baja California (
Rosales-Casián and Almeda-Jáuregui 2009
). Bering Sea records have been rare and not well documented (Mecklenburg
et al.
2002). On
4 June 2005
, a Green Sturgeon was caught in Kuskokwim Bay off Kwigillingok (
59°51’N
,
162°08’W
) (
Love
et al.
2005
). In addition, a few Green Sturgeon have been captured in the lower Yukon River which enters the Bering Sea near Norton Sound (Randy Brown, pers. comm. to M.L.). Depth: to
167 m
(
548 ft
) at sea (NWFSC-FRAM). Anadromous.