Editing Amur (section)

==Wildlife==
[[File:Goldi men with dog sled on Amur River LCCN2004708050.jpg|thumb|left|[[Nanai people|Nanai]] men with dog sled on the Amur, 1895]]
It is believed there are at least 123 species of fish from 23 families inhabiting the Amur. The majority are of the ''[[Gobioninae]]'' subfamily of ''[[Cypriniformes]]'', followed in number by [[Salmonidae]]. Several of the species are [[endemic]]. ''[[Pseudaspius]]'' and ''[[Mesocottus]]'' are [[Monotypic taxon|monotypic]] genera found only in the Amur and some nearby coastal rivers.<ref name="auto" /> Other animals inhabiting this region include the [[Amur falcon]], [[Amur leopard]] and [[Siberian tiger|Amur tiger]]; while some notable local flora include [[Amur cork tree]], [[Amur maple]] and the [[Lonicera maackii|Amur honeysuckle]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Sokolova |first1=Galina V. |last2=Verkhoturov |first2=Andrei L. |last3=Korolev |first3=Sergei P. |title=Impact of Deforestation on Streamflow in the Amur River Basin |journal=Geosciences |date=June 2019 |volume=9 |issue=6 |pages=262 |doi=10.3390/geosciences9060262 |bibcode=2019Geosc...9..262S |language=en |issn=2076-3263 |doi-access=free }}</ref>

Four species of the [[Acipenseridae]] family can be found: the [[kaluga (fish)|kaluga]], [[Amur sturgeon]], [[Sakhalin sturgeon]] and [[sterlet]]. The Kaluga and Amur sturgeon are endemic. The sterlet was introduced from the [[Ob (river)|Ob]] in the 1950s.<ref>''[https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1007358027263 Endemic sturgeons of the Amur River: kaluga, Huso dauricus, and Amur sturgeon, Acipenser schrencki] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200204055848/https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1007358027263 |date=2020-02-04 }}''</ref> This region is home to the [[Kaluga (fish)|Kaluga]] fish ([[Acipenseriformes]]).