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Related FAQs: Sticklebacks,
Related
Articles: Brackish Water
Fishes,
/A Diversity of Aquatic Life
Stickleback Fishes, Family Gasterosteidae
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By Bob Fenner
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Gasterosteus
aculeatus
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Found in marine, brackish and freshwater environments all over the
northern Hemisphere, the Sticklebacks are feisty, colorful at times,
and always interesting behavioral subjects. Five genera, seven
species.
| Gasterosteus aculeatus Linnaeus 1758, the
Three-Spined Stickleback. A marine to freshwater fish... North
Pacific; Baja to Japan. Aquarium photo (Monterey). |
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Bibliography/Further Reading:
Baugh, Tom 1985. The Sticklebacks, nature's spiny wonders.
FAMA 7/85.
Bell, Michael A. 1982. Fossil Sticklebacks and the pace of
evolution. TFH 11/82.
Goldstein, Robert J. 1995. The Sticklebacks. A
most interesting freshwater species- and a native,
too.
Goldstein, Robert J. 2000. The Sticklebacks,
Family Gasterosteidae. FAMA 2/00.
Kenney, William R. 1988. Everything you always
want to know about Sticklebacks... and probably a good deal more. FAMA
3/88.
Quinn, John R. 1976. I like Sticklebacks!
Marine Aquarist 7:5, 76.
