sinensis, Acipenser Gray [J. E.] 1835:122 [Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1834 (pt 2); ref. 18155] China. Syntypes: BMNH 1851.12.27.267 (1). •Valid as Acipenser sinensis Gray 1835 -- (Nakaya in Masuda et al. 1984:18 [ref. 6441], Zheng et al. 1989:19 [ref. 21202], Kuang in Pan et al. 1991:26 [ref. 23876], Ding 1994:30 [ref. 21531], Artyukhin 1995:7 [ref. 23782], Zhu 1995:6 [ref. 25213], Bemis et al. 1997:37 [ref. 22871], Cheng & Zhou 1997:63 [ref. 26385] dated 1834, Kim 1997:140 [ref. 24032], Birstein & Bemis 1997:158 [ref. 29760], Chen in Chen 1998:37 [ref. 23556], Yue & Chen 1998:13 [ref. 26415], Zhang 2001:34 [ref. 26586] dated 1834, Choi et al. 2003:136, 487 [ref. 26218], Hilton et al. 2011:136 [ref. 31407], Zhang et al. 2016:45 [ref. 34477] dated 1834, Zhang et al. 2019:117 [ref. 36699], Kim et al. 2020:49 [ref. 39118], Sonoyama et al. 2020:16 [ref. 37637], Guo 2021:67 [ref. 38617]). Current status: Valid as Acipenser sinensis Gray 1835. Acipenseridae. Distribution: Northwestern Pacific: Yangtze and Pearl River basins (China) to Sea of Japan (southern Korea, Japan). Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.