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The brook stickleback (Culaea inconstans) is a small freshwater fish that is distributed across the US and Canada. It grows to a length of about 2 inches. It grows to a length of about 2 inches. It occupies the northern part of the eastern United States, as well as the southern half of Canada.
Gasterosteus doryssus is an extinct species of freshwater stickleback fish that inhabited inland freshwater habitats of the North American Great Basin during the Miocene.It is known from thousands of articulated fossil skeletons, comprising various age classes and two different ecomorphs, discovered in diatomite deposits of the Truckee Formation near Hazen, Nevada.
Sticklebacks are endemic to the temperate zone [5] and are most commonly found in the ocean, but some can be found in fresh water. The freshwater taxa were trapped in Europe , Asia , and North America after the Ice Age 10,000–20,000 years ago, and have evolved features different from those of the marine species.
Gasterosteus is a genus of ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Gasterosteidae, the sticklebacks. These fishes are found in freshwater, brackish water and marine habitats in the Holarctic region.
This is a list of wildlife found in the Skagit River basin of the ... Sockeye salmon Brook trout. Salmon and trout. Sockeye salmon; ... Sticklebacks. Three-spined ...
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Historically, Gasterosteoidei was treated as a suborder within the order Gasterostiformes and often included the sea horses, pipefishes and their relatives as suborder Syngnathoidei, with the sticklebacks and relatives in the suborder Gasterosteoidei. [4] The Gasterosteiformes sensu lato were regarded as paraphyletic with the Scorpaeniformes.
Family Gasterosteidae (sticklebacks) Brook stickleback (Culaea inconstans) O; ... the juveniles are found mainly in areas with a water temperature between 19.5 and 28 ...