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The Chinese paddlefish was officially declared extinct in 2022, with an estimated time of extinction to be by 2005, and no later than 2010, although it had become functionally extinct by 1993. [ 1 ] [ 4 ] The main cause of its extinction was the construction of the Gezhouba and Three Gorges dams , causing population fragmentation and blocking ...
The Chinese sturgeon (Acipenser sinensis; Chinese: 中華鱘; pinyin: zhōnghuá xún) is a critically endangered member of the family Acipenseridae in the order Acipenseriformes. Historically, this anadromous fish was found in China, Japan, and the Korean Peninsula , but it has been extirpated from Korea, Japan, and most regions in China due ...
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]
A reclusive fish from the Ohio River is at the heart of little-known Hoosier cottage industry that produces thousands of pounds of caviar a year.
They are one of two living families of the Acipenseriformes alongside paddlefish (Polyodontidae). The family is grouped into four genera: Acipenser (which is paraphyletic , containing many distantly related sturgeon species), Huso , Scaphirhynchus , and Pseudoscaphirhynchus .
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’
According to the news artices Qiwei spoke directly to the Chinese state broadcaster CCTV saying "There have been no successful cases of breeding the Chinese paddlefish in captivity," and "Hence, when it died out in the wild, the species has become completely extinct."
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 ...