Acipenser Linnaeus [C.] 1758:237 Masc. Acipenser sturio Linnaeus 1758. Type by Linnaean tautonymy. Spelled Accipenser by authors. On Official List (Opinion 77, Direction 56); Acipenses Linck 1790 placed on Official Index. Acipenseres used by Heckel & Kner 1856:336 [ref. 2078]. •Valid as Acipenser Linnaeus 1758 -- (Svetovidov 1973:82 [ref. 7169], Svetovidov in Whitehead et al. 1984:220 [ref. 13675], Nakaya in Masuda et al. 1984:18 [ref. 6441], Kuang in Pan et al. 1991:26 [ref. 23876], Jenkins & Burkhead 1994:185 [ref. 21581], Artyukin 1995:7 [ref. 23782], Bemis et al. 1997:37 [ref. 22871], Birstein & Bemis 1997:157 [ref. 29760], Chen in Chen 1998:36 [ref. 23556], Sokolov 1998:19 [ref. 23571], Dyer 2000:89 [ref. 26678], Sideleva 2001:45 [ref. 26181], Birstein et al. 2002:287 [ref. 26021], Mecklenburg et al. 2002:113 [ref. 25968], Scott 2003:671 [ref. 26987], Sideleva 2003:8 [ref. 27815], Bogutskaya & Naseka 2004:22 [ref. 28183], Kottelat & Freyhof 2007:47 [ref. 29996], Minckley & Marsh 2009:69 [ref. 31114], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:16 [ref. 36649], Mecklenburg et al. 2011:117 [ref. 31212], Ruban et al. 2011:470 [ref. 31229], Parin et al. 2014:40 [ref. 33547], Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. 2015:858 [ref. 34062], Pietsch & Orr 2015:18 [ref. 34694], Zhang et al. 2016:44 [ref. 34477], Dyldin & Orlov 2016:545 [ref. 34656], Esmaeili et al. 2017:23 [ref. 35254], Esmaeili et al. 2018:6 [ref. 36089]). Current status: Valid as Acipenser Linnaeus 1758. Acipenseridae.