Třída: Actinopterygii - paprskoploutví
Řád: Acipenseriformes - jeseteři
Čeleď: Acipenseridae - jeseterovití

Synonyma: Acipenser albula Forster, 1767; Acipenser beluga Forster, 1767; Acipenser huso Linnaeus, 1758; Acipenser schypa Bonnaterre, 1788; Acipenser schypa Gmelin, 1789; Acipenser shyp Forster, 1767; Acipenser vallisnerii Molin, 1851; Huso huso caspicus Babushkin, 1942; Huso huso maeoticus Sal'nikov & Malyatskii, 1934; Huso huso orientalis Lelek, 1987; Huso huso ponticus Sal'nikov & Malyatskii, 1934; Huso ichthyocolla Bonaparte, 1846.

Typová lokalita: Dunaj a řeky Ruska.

Reference: Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae, Ed. X. (Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata.) Holmiae. Systema Nat. ed. 10 v. 1: i-ii + 1-824.