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Pungitius pungitius pungitius (Linnaeus 1758

Description

Pungitius pungitius (Linnaeus, 1758).

Ninespine Stickleback. To 9 cm (3.5 in) TL. Circumboreal; Korea to Seas of Japan and Okhotsk to Bering, Chukchi, and Beaufort Seas, and western and northern Gulf of Alaska coasts into northeastern British Columbia. Anadromous and resident freshwater forms; marine populations most common in marshes and estuaries; depth: very shallow waters to 110 m (361 ft). All in Mecklenburg et al. (2002), Page and Burr (1991), and Coad (1995).

Notes

Published as part of Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, pp. 1-285 in Zootaxa 5053 (1) on page 102, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008

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References

  • Page, L. M. & Burr, B. M. (1991) A Field Guide to Freshwater Fishes. Houghton Mifflin, Boston.
  • Coad, B. W. (1995) Encyclopedia of Canadian Fishes. Canadian Museum of Nature and Canadian Sportfishing Productions Inc., Waterdown.