Gasterosteus

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 

 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 
 †Gasterosteus kamoensis Nazarkin, Yabumoto & Urabe, 2013

 Synonyms 

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

 References 

 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.
 "Gasterosteus aculeatus". Animal Diversity Web.
 Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2022). "Gasterosteus wheatlandi" in FishBase. August 2022 version.
 Freyhof, J. & Kottelat, M. (2008). "Gasterosteus crenobiontus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 15 November 2021.


Taxon identifiers Wikidata: Q134491
 Wikispecies: Gasterosteus
Authority control databases: National  Israel
Category:Scorpaeniformes
Category:Freshwater fish