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🇷🇺 RussiaSterlet
A small Eurasian sturgeon found in rivers flowing to the Black, Azov, and Caspian seas.Ancient · Rivers and lakes · 1758
🇺🇸 United States and 1 moreLake sturgeon
A large, long-lived freshwater fish native to North America.Ancient · Rivers and lakes
🇺🇸 United States and 1 moreShortnose sturgeon
A small, endangered North American sturgeon with a short snout.Ancient · Rivers and lakes · 1818
🇺🇸 United StatesShovelnose sturgeon
Smallest North American freshwater sturgeon, known for its shovel-shaped snout and caviar production.Ancient · Rivers and lakes · 1820
🇬🇧 United KingdomSchelly
Rare whitefish of the English Lake DistrictSalmonid · Rivers and lakes
🇧🇷 Brazil and 1 moreArapaima
Large freshwater fish from the Amazon basin known for its size and air-breathing ability.Ancient · Rivers and lakes
🇷🇺 Russia and 4 moreSabre carp
A silvery surface feeder from Eastern Europe and Asia.Carp · Rivers and lakes
🇬🇧 United KingdomGwyniad
Rare whitefish found only in one Welsh lakeSalmonid · Rivers and lakes · 1848
🇦🇹 Austria and 4 moreEuropean mudminnow
Small freshwater fish from Central and Eastern EuropeOther · Rivers and lakes
🇧🇷 Brazil and 4 moreArapaima
Giant air-breathing freshwater fish of the AmazonOther · Rivers and lakes · 1822
🇺🇸 United States and 1 morePacific lamprey
An anadromous parasitic jawless fish found along the Pacific Rim.Ancient · Rivers and lakes · 1872
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Sterlet: Karelj, Public domain, source
- Lake sturgeon: USFWS Mountain-Prairie, Public domain, source
- Shortnose sturgeon: Unknown author, Public domain, source
- Shovelnose sturgeon: Kbh3rd, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Schelly: Melissaann7391, CC0, source
- Arapaima: This illustration was made by Citron You must credit this : Citron / C, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Sabre carp: Krüger, Public domain, source
- Gwyniad: Peter Malloch, Public domain, source
- European mudminnow: Zsoldos Márton, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Arapaima: George Chernilevsky, Public domain, source
- Pacific lamprey: Dave Herasimtschuk, US Fish & Wildlife Service, Public domain, source