Lo storione persiano, Acipenser persicus

Borodin, 1897

Nomi comuni esteri - Francese - esturgeon perse. Inglese -  persian sturgeon. Repubblica Ceca - jeseter perský. Finlandia - persiansampi. Federazione Russa - persidskii oseter. Iran - darakul, burun, mahi-e kaviar, tasmahi-e-Iran, tass mahi Iran, Tirij.

Acipenser persicus Borodin, 1897. A report on the zoological research excursion to the north Caspian in summer 1895 aboard the cruser Uralets. Vestnik Rybopromyshlennosti v. 12: 1-31. Sinonimo senior, combinazione originale, nomenclatura IUCN valida.

Acipenser güldenstädti persicus Borodin, 1897. A report on the zoological research excursion to the north Caspian in summer 1895 aboard the cruser Uralets. Vestnik Rybopromyshlennosti v. 12: 1-31. Sinonimo senior, combinazione originale, nomenclatura IUCN non valida. Opinioni - Sinonimo di Acipenser gueldenstaedti Brandt & Ratzeberg 1833, ma valida sottospecie, secondo Berg 1948:81, Lelek 1987:50, vedere anche Sokolov 1998:19. Specie valida come Acipenser persicus Borodin 1897, secondo Coad 1995:7, Artyukhin 1995:7, Bemis et al. 1997:37, Reshetnikov et al. 1997:726, Coad 1998:102, Pourkazemi et al. 2000:1, Bogutskaya et al. 2001:42, Bogutskaya & Naseka 2004:24, Fricke et al. 2007:21, Birstein & Bemis 2008:158. Località tipo: fiume Ural a Ural'sk, Kazakhstan; fiume Kura, Azerbijan; coste meridionali del Mar Caspio, Iran. Sintipi: non più presenti al ZIN. Attuale status: Acipenser persicus Borodin 1897.

Note sulla sistematica - Considerato a lungo sottospecie di Acipenser gueldenstaedtii (vedere Borodin, 1926; Berg, 1948-1949; Whitehead et al., 1984-1986; Keyvanfar et al., 1987; Keyvanfar, 1988). Attualmente riconosciuto specie valida sulla base di molti studi meristici, morfologici, ecologici, di analisi sulle proteine del caviale e del siero, sul DNA mitocondriale e genomico, e di immunologia (Luk'yanenko et al., 1974; Artyukhin & Zarkua, 1986; Vlasenko, Pavlov & Vasil'ev in Holčík, 1989; Keyvanfar & Nasrichari, 1999; Pourkazemi et al., 2000; Subbotkin & Subbotkina; 2001; Ghorbani & Hajimoradloo, 2002; Gharei et al., 2005). Birstein et al., 2005, ritiene che A. persicus non sia distinguibile da A. gueldenstaedtii sulla base delle analisi molecolari, ma lo stesso autore considera che A. gueldenstaedtii possegga una struttura di tipo complex intraspecie (Birstein et al. 2005) e che, a seconda della popolazione campionata per le analisi, possano emergere risultati discordanti. In ogni caso, per il momento, il taxon A. persicus viene ritenuto distinto e riconoscibile dalla maggioranza degli autori.

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