Author: Bonaparte, 1830

Acipenser naccarii Bonaparte, 1830

Diagnosis: snout moderate, less than 60% of head, very broad and rounded at tip. Lower lip not continuous, interrupted at centre; barbels not fringed, nearer to tip of snout than to mouth and not touching it. Dorsal finrays 36-48; anal finrays 24-31. Five rows of scutes, dorsal 10-14 (the middle ones deeper and usually larger than those at front), lateral 32-42 on each side, ventral 8-11 on each side, with no smaller plates between dorsal and lateral rows. Colour: back olivaceous brown, flanks lighter, belly white. Size: to 150 cm and 20-25 kg.

Habitat: on bottom over sand and mud at 10-40 m. Food: bottom-living invertebrates of sand and mud, also small fishes. Reproduction: enters rivers from March to May and presumably spawns then.

Distribution: Adriatic, entering the Po and Adige rivers; very rare and probably verging on extinction (Bini, 1970).

Eggs, larvae and young stages. No data.
Otoliths (sagitta). No data.

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Subphylum Vertebrata
Superclass Gnathostomata
Class Osteichthyes
Order Acipenseriformes
Family Acipenseridae
Genus Acipenser
Species Acipenser naccarii

Status in World Register of Marine Species

Accepted name: Acipenser naccarii Bonaparte, 1836

Scientific synonyms and common names

Acipenser naccarii (Bonaparte, 1836)

Synonyms:

Acipenser naccarii Bonaparte, 1836, Iconogr. Fauna ital., 3, Pesci, fasc. XVI-XVII, punt. 87, ord. 129, col. fig. 2 ('proprio dell' Europa meridionale, ove sembra ristretto al Mare adriatico'). Type: unknown.
Acipenser nasus Heckel, 1851, Sitzungsber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, math. naturw. Kl., 6(2): 551, pl. XXIII ('Lagunen bei Venedig').
Acipenser nardoi Heckel, ibid.: 551, 557, pl. XXIV (fig. 2) ('Lagunen bei Venedig').
Acipenser naccarii: Doderlein, 1881, 2: 10 Soljan, 1948: 103, 384, fig. p. 103.
Acipenser nardoi: Doderlein, ibid.: 12.
Acipenser naccarii: Tortonese, 1970: 82, fig. 33B, 34 Bini, 1971, 2, fig. p. 25 (col.).

Common names:

adriatic sturgeon [En]
esturgeon adriatique [Fr]
jesetra tuponoska [Hr]
storione cobice [It]

Bini, G. 1967-72. Atlante dei pesci delle Coste italiane. Mondo Sommerso, Milano, 9 vol: I, 1967, Leptocardi, Ciclostomi, Selaci, 206 p., 66 fig+64 col. fig. II, 1971, Osteitti (Acipenseriformi, Clupeiformi, Mictofiformi, Anguilliformi), 300 p., 73 col. fig. III, 1970, Notacantiformi . . . Zeiformi, 229 p., 34 fig+63 col. fig. IV, 1968, Perciformi (Mugiloidei, Percoidei), 163 p., 34 fig+49 col. fig. V, 1968, Perciformi (Percoidei), 175 p., 22 fig.+56 col. fig. VI, 1968, Perciformi (Trichiuroidei . . . Blennioidei), 177 p., 48 fig+57 col. fig. VII,1969, Perciformi (Ofidioidei . . . Dactilopteroidei), 196 p., 57 fig.+59 col. fig. VIII,1968, Pleuronettiformi, Echeniformi, Gobioesociformi, Tetraodontiformi, Lofiformi, 164 p., 34+63 fig. IX, 1972, Introduzione. Parte generale. Aggiornamenti. Indici. 176 p.

Bonaparte, C. L. 1832-41, Iconografia della Fauna italica per le quattro classi degli Animali Vertebrati, tomo III, Pesci, Roma, without pagination, 75 puntate (in 30 fasc.), 78 pl.

Doderlein, P. 1881. Rivista della fauna sicula dei Vertebrati. Nuove Effemeridi Sicil., Palermo, 9 : 1-92.

Heckel, J. J. 1851. Stör-Arten der Lagunen bei Venedig. Sber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, math.naturw. Kl., 6 (2): 547-563, pl. XXIII-XXIV.

Tortonese, E. 1970e. Osteichthyes (Pesci ossei), Parte Prima. Fauna Ital., 10, Calderini, Bologna, 565 p., 198 fig.

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