Genus Acipenser (Noun)
Meaning
Type genus of the Acipenseridae: sturgeons.
Classification
Nouns denoting animals.
Examples
- Acipenser is a genus of sturgeons in the family Acipenseridae.
- The genus Acipenser comprises seventeen living species of sturgeons and several fossil species.
- Genus Acipenser has some species considered anadromous or amphidromous fish which spend most of their time in the sea or in saltwater and move to freshwater only for breeding.
- Species in the genus Acipenser can live in the Black and Caspian Seas, in Europe, in Russia and Eastern Europe and into North America in Canada and the USA.
- Historically genus Acipenser populations occurred widely but today these sturgeon are primarily in northern regions with cool or cold climate waterways and coasts.