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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 ...
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.
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.
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The only exception is the far larger fifteen-spined stickleback (Spinachia spinachia), which can reach 22 cm (approx. 8.8 inches). [12] Body form varies with habitat: sticklebacks in shallow lakes have developed a deep body specialized to enable feeding on benthic invertebrates, whilst those in deep oligotrophic lakes have adapted to feed on ...
A mysterious "monster" fish with teeth washed up on shores of a California park in a "very rare" sighting on Friday, 13 October. Crystal Cove State Park posted images of the specimen on their ...
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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]