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A biometric method for determining the sex of acipenserids, including the Russian sturgeon Acipenser gueldenstaedtii (Acipenseridae) of the Azov Population

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With reference to the Russian sturgeon Acipenser gueldenstaedtii of the Azov Population, it is demonstrated that the sex of acipenserids may be determined biometrically. A measurement scheme of the head is suggested, which gives the possibility to determine gender in live sturgeons. A discriminate equation is composed for the identification of the sex of individuals of the Russian sturgeon in a sufficiently wide size-age range, irrespective of the maturity stage of the gonads.

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Original Russian Text © A.V. Mal’tsev, Ya.G. Merkulov, 2006, published in Voprosy Ikhtiologii, 2006, Vol. 46, No. 4, pp. 536–540.

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Mal’tsev, A.V., Merkulov, Y.G. A biometric method for determining the sex of acipenserids, including the Russian sturgeon Acipenser gueldenstaedtii (Acipenseridae) of the Azov Population. J. Ichthyol. 46, 460–464 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0032945206060075

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