És un peix d'[[aigua dolça]] i [[Aigua salabrosa|salabrosa]], [[Peix demersal|demersal]], potamòdrom<ref name="Riede, K., [[2004]]."> Riede, K., [[2004]]. Global register of migratory species - from global to regional scales. Final Report of the R&D-Projekt 808 05 081. Federal Agency for Nature Conservation, [[Bonn]], [[Alemanya]]. 329 p.</ref> i de [[clima temperat]],<ref name="FishBase">[http://www.fishbase.org/summary/Pseudoscaphirhynchus-fedtschenkoi.html |FishBase] llengua = anglès{{en}}</ref> el qual és un [[endemisme]] de la [[conca hidrogràfica|conca]] del riu [[Sirdarià]]<ref>[http://www.fishbase.org/trophiceco/FishEcoList.php?ve_code=35 Species in Syrdar'ya River - |FishBase] llengua = anglès{{en}}</ref> (conca de la [[mar d'Aral]])<ref>[http://www.fishbase.org/trophiceco/FishEcoList.php?ve_code=155 Species in Aral Sea - |FishBase] llengua = anglès{{en}}</ref> a l'[[Uzbekistan]],<ref name="Kamilov, G. i Z. U. Urchinov, [[1995]].">Kamilov, G. i Z. U. Urchinov, [[1995]]. Fish and fisheries in [[Uzbekistan]] under the impact of irrigated agriculture. P. 10-41 A: T. Petr (ed.). Inland fisheries under the impact of irrigated agriculture: Central Asia. FAO Fisheries Circular No. 894. Pàg. 26.</ref><ref>[{{ref-web|url=http://www.fishbase.org/Country/CountryChecklist.php?showAll=yes&c_code=860&vhabitat=all2&cpresence=present | títol = All fishes reported from Uzbekistan - | llengua = anglès}}</ref> el [[Tadjikistan]] i el [[Kazakhstan]]<ref>[{{ref-web|url=http://www.fishbase.org/Country/CountryChecklist.php?showAll=yes&c_code=398&vhabitat=all2&cpresence=present | títol = All fishes reported from Kazakhstan - | llengua = anglès}}</ref> a l'Àsia central.<ref>Kuhajda, B. R., R. L. Mayden, V. B. Salnikov i V. J. Birstein, [[2000]]. Examination of intraspecific variation and life history characteristics of ''[[Pseudoscaphirhynchus kaufmanni]]'' and ''[[Pseudoscaphirhynchus hermanni]]'' (''[[Actinopterygii]]'', ''[[Acipenseridae]]''), central Asian sturgeon endemic to the Amu Darya River. P. 223-224. A: Program book and abstracts. Joint (80th) meeting of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpatologists (ASIH), American Elasmobranch Society (AES), Herpatologists League (HL), Neotropical Ichthyological Assoc. (NIA), SSAR, CAH.</ref><ref name="Catalogue of Life">[http://www.catalogueoflife.org/col/details/species/id/21115702 Catalogue of Life] {{en}}</ref>
