Species, status and population trend of Sturgeon on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ Click on the species names below for detailed information: Acipenser baerii Status: Endangered (Siberian Sturgeon) Population trend: decreasing Acipenser brevirostrum Status: Vulnerable (Shortnose Sturgeon) Population trend: decreasing Acipenser dabryanus Status: Critically Endangered (Yangtze Sturgeon) Population trend: decreasing Acipenser fulvescens Status: Least Concern (Lake Sturgeon) Population trend: increasing Acipenser gueldenstaedtii Status: Critically Endangered (Russian Sturgeon) Population trend: decreasing Acipenser medirostris Status: Near Threatened (Green Sturgeon) Population trend: stable Acipenser mikadoi Status: Critically Endangered (Sakhalin Sturgeon) Population trend: decreasing Acipenser naccarii Status: Critically Endangered (Adriatic Sturgeon) Population trend: decreasing Acipenser nudiventris Status: Critically Endangered (Ship Sturgeon) Population trend: decreasing Acipenser oxyrinchus Status: Near Threatened (Gulf Sturgeon) Population trend: increasing Acipenser persicus Status: Critically Endangered (Persian Sturgeon) Population trend: decreasing Acipenser ruthenus Status: Vulnerable (Sterlet) Population trend: decreasing Acipenser schrenckii Status: Critically Endangered (Amur Sturgeon) Population trend: decreasing Acipenser sinensis Status: Critically Endangered (Chinese Sturgeon) Population trend: decreasing Acipenser stellatus Status: Critically Endangered (Stellate Sturgeon) Population trend: decreasing Acipenser sturio Status: Critically Endangered (Atlantic sturgeon) Population trend: decreasing Acipenser transmontanus Status: Least Concern (White Sturgeon) Population trend: stable Huso dauricus Status: Critically Endangered (Kaluga) Population trend: decreasing Huso huso Status: Critically Endangered (Beluga) Pop. trend: decreasing Polyodon spathula Status: Vulnerable A3de (Paddlefish) Population trend: unknown 1 Psephurus gladius Status: Critically Endangered (Chinese Paddlefish) Population trend: unknown Pseudoscaphirhynchus Status: Critically Endangered fedtschenkoi Population trend: unknown (Syr-darya Shovelnose Sturgeon) Pseudoscaphirhynchus Status: Critically Endangered hermanni Population trend: decreasing (Dwarf Sturgeon) Pseudoscaphirhynchus Status: Critically Endangered kaufmanni Population trend: decreasing (False Shovelnose Sturgeon) Scaphirhynchus albus Status: Endangered (Pallid Sturgeon) Population trend: decreasing Scaphirhynchus platorynchus Status: Vulnerable (Shovelnose Sturgeon) Population trend: decreasing Scaphirhynchus suttkusi Status: Critically Endangered (Alabama Sturgeon) Population trend: decreasing 2 .