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The stickleback family, Gasterosteidae, was first proposed as a family by the French zoologist Charles Lucien Bonaparte in 1831. [1] It was long thought that the sticklebacks and their relatives made up a suborder, the Gasterosteoidei, of the order Gasterostiformes with the sea horses and pipefishes making up the suborder Syngnathoidei.
Stickleback next to extracted Schistocephalus solidus plerocercoids. The three-spined stickleback is a secondary intermediate host for the hermaphroditic parasite Schistocephalus solidus, a tapeworm of fish and fish-eating birds. The tapeworm passes into sticklebacks through its first intermediate hosts, cyclopoid copepods, when these are eaten ...
The brook stickleback is the only species in the genus Culaea which is classified within the stickleback family, Gasterosteidae. [2] Culea is a near anagram of Eucalia which is a combination of eu , meaning "well" and calia , meaning "nested", and allusion to the sticklebacks' building of nests.
Gasterosteoidei contains the following families and genera: [2] [6] Family Hypoptychidae Steindachner, 1880 (Sand eel) . Hypoptychus Steindachner, 1880; Family Aulorhynchidae Gill, 1861 (Tubesnouts)
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 [1]
Spinachia is a monospecific genus of ray-finned fish belonging to the family Gasterosteidae, the sticklebacks.The only species in the genus is Spinachia spinachia, the sea stickleback, fifteen-spined stickleback or fifteenspine stickleback, a species which lives in benthopelagic and in brackish environments of the northeastern Atlantic Ocean.