Gasterosteus

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A drawing of the three-spined stickleback (Gastrosteus aculeatus)

Gasterosteus is a genus of ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Gasterosteidae in the suborder Gasterosteoidei. These fishes are found in freshwater, brackish water and marine habitats in the Holarctic region.

Species[change | change source]

  • Gasterosteus aculeatus Linnaeus, 1758 (Three-spined stickleback)
  • Gasterosteus crenobiontus Băcescu & R. Mayer, 1956 (Techirghiol stickleback)
  • Gasterosteus islandicus Sauvage, 1874 (Iceland stickleback)
  • Gasterosteus microcephalus Girard, 1854 (Smallhead stickleback)
  • Gasterosteus nipponicus Higuchi, Sakai & A. Goto, 2014
  • Gasterosteus wheatlandi Putnam, 1867 (Black-spotted stickleback)

Fossil species[change | change source]

Synonyms[change | change source]

  • Obolarius Tilesius, 1811
  • Gasteracanthus Pallas, 1814
  • Leiurus Swainson, 1839
  • Gladiunculus Jordan & Evermann, 1927

References[change | change source]

  1. Higuchi, M., Sakai, H. & Goto, A. (2014): A new threespine stickleback, Gasterosteus nipponicus sp. nov. (Teleostei: Gasterosteidae), from the Japan Sea region. Ichthyological Research, (61) 4: 341-351.
  2. "Gasterosteus aculeatus". Animal Diversity Web.
  3. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2022). "Gasterosteus wheatlandi" in FishBase. August 2022 version.
  4. Freyhof, J. & Kottelat, M. (2008). "Gasterosteus crenobiontus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 15 November 2021.
Gasterosteus microcephalus

Other websites[change | change source]

Taxon identifiers
  • Wikidata: Q134491
  • Wikispecies: Gasterosteus
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