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The Chinese paddlefish (Psephurus gladius; simplified Chinese: 白鲟; traditional Chinese: 白鱘; pinyin: báixún: literal translation: "white sturgeon"), also known as the Chinese swordfish, is an extinct species of fish that was formerly native to the Yangtze and Yellow River basins in China.
The other is the Chinese paddlefish (Psephurus gladius), which was declared extinct in 2022 following a 2019 recommendation; [6] [7] [8] the species has not been sighted in the Yangtze River Basin in China since 2003. [9] [10] Chinese paddlefish are also commonly referred to as "Chinese swordfish", or "elephant fish". [11]
Long-spine bream (Acanthobrama centisquama); Damascus bream (Acanthobrama tricolor); Anabarilius qiluensis; Anabarilius yangzonensis; Siamese bala-shak (Balantiocheilos ambusticauda)
The estimated time of the divergence between sturgeons and paddlefish varies. An estimate based on 30 protein-encoding nuclear markers suggest 204.1 million years ago, research on mitochondrial genomes suggest 155.2 million years ago, and Bayesian dating based on the combined matrix of molecular (mitogenomes) and morphological characters set ...
The paddlefish had likely been suffering for a very long time, a fishing guide said. Fishermen save fish from surprising, painful situation. ‘Probably happy to be caught’
The other is the Chinese paddlefish (Psephurus gladius), which was declared extinct in 2022 following a 2019 recommendation; the species has not been sighted in the Yangtze River Basin in China since 2003. Chinese paddlefish are also commonly referred to as "Chinese swordfish", or "elephant fish".
Parapsephurus is an extinct genus of paddlefish in the family Polyodontidae. Currently the only known species in this genus is the type species, Parapsephurus willybemisi. P. willybemisi is known a nearly complete specimen from the Tanis locality of the Hell Creek Formation in North Dakota, USA, which dates to the late Maastrichtian stage of the Late Cretaceous, approximately 66 million years ago.
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