Amur River Demersal Habitat
This taxon is one of a number of demersal species in the Amur River system. Demersal river fish are found at the river bottom, feeding on benthos and zooplankton
The persistence of mercury contamination in Amur River bottom sediments is a major issue, arising from historic cinnabar mining in the basin and poor waste management practises, especially in the communist Soviet era, where industrial development was placed ahead of sound conservation practises.
The largest native demersal fish species in the Amur River is the 560 centimeter (cm) long kaluga (Huso dauricus); demersal biota are those that inhabit the bottom of a surface water body. Another large demersal fish found in the Amur is the 300 cm Amur sturgeon (Acipenser schrenckii), a taxon which is endemic to the Amur basin.
Other demersal endemic fish species (all in the concubitae family) of the Amur Basin are Iksookimia longicorpa, I. koreensis, I. hugowolfeldi, Cobitis melanoleuca melanoleuca and the Puan spine loach (Iksookimia pumila).
- C.Michael Hogan. 2012. ''Amur River. Encyclopedia of Earth, National Council for Science and the Environment, Washington DC ed. Peter Saundry; ed.in-chief Cutler J.Cleveland
- Fishbase. 2010. Species in Amur
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Jennifer Hammock added an association between "Amur River Demersal Habitat" and "Tribolodon brandtii (Dybowski, 1872)".
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Jennifer Hammock added an association between "Amur River Demersal Habitat" and "Tridentiger trigonocephalus (Gill, 1859)".
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Jennifer Hammock added an association between "Amur River Demersal Habitat" and "Tachysurus sinensis Lacepède, 1803".
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Jennifer Hammock added an association between "Amur River Demersal Habitat" and "Pelteobagrus fulvidraco (Richardson, 1846)".
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Jennifer Hammock added an association between "Amur River Demersal Habitat" and "Pelteobagrus brashnikowi (Berg, 1907)".
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Jennifer Hammock added an association between "Amur River Demersal Habitat" and "Pelteobagrus argentivittatus (Regan, 1905)".
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Jennifer Hammock added an association between "Amur River Demersal Habitat" and "Silurus soldatovi Nikolskii & Soin, 1948".
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Jennifer Hammock added an association between "Amur River Demersal Habitat" and "Silurus microdorsalis (Mori, 1936)".
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Jennifer Hammock added an association between "Amur River Demersal Habitat" and "Silurus asotus Linnaeus, 1758".
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Jennifer Hammock added an association between "Amur River Demersal Habitat" and "Salangichthys microdon (Bleeker, 1860)".
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Jennifer Hammock added an association between "Amur River Demersal Habitat" and "Phoxinus oxycephalus (Sauvage & Dabry de Thiersant, 1874)".
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Jennifer Hammock added an association between "Amur River Demersal Habitat" and "Phoxinus czekanowskii Dybowski, 1869".
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Jennifer Hammock added an association between "Amur River Demersal Habitat" and "Rhinogobius brunneus (Temminck & Schlegel, 1845)".
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Jennifer Hammock added an association between "Amur River Demersal Habitat" and "Pungitius bussei (Warpachowski, 1888)".
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Jennifer Hammock added an association between "Amur River Demersal Habitat" and "Platichthys stellatus (Pallas, 1787)".
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Jennifer Hammock added an association between "Amur River Demersal Habitat" and "Phoxinus phoxinus (Linnaeus, 1758)".
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Jennifer Hammock added an association between "Amur River Demersal Habitat" and "Perccottus glenii Dybowski, 1877".
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Jennifer Hammock added an association between "Amur River Demersal Habitat" and "Perca fluviatilis Linnaeus, 1758".
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Jennifer Hammock added an association between "Amur River Demersal Habitat" and "Pelteobagrus ussuriensis (Dybowski, 1872)".
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Jennifer Hammock added an association between "Amur River Demersal Habitat" and "Paramisgurnus dabryanus Dabry de Thiersant, 1872".
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