Freshwater Fishes of Iran, Species Accounts - Acipenseridae

Freshwater Fishes of Iran

Species Accounts - Acipenseridae - Pseudoscaphirhynchus

Revised: 22 July 2007

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Pseudoscaphirhynchus
Nikolskii, 1900

Pseudoscaphirhynchus kaufmanni
(Kessler, 1877)

This species is reported from the Karakum Canal and Kopetdag Reservoir in Turkmenistan by Shakirova and Sukhanova (1994) and Sal'nikov (1995). It may eventually be found in the Tedzhen River and Caspian Sea basins of Iran. No Iranian record.

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