''Pungitius'' is a genus of
stickleback
The sticklebacks are a family of ray-finned fishes, the Gasterosteidae which have a Holarctic distribution in fresh, brackish and marine waters. They were thought to be related to the pipefish and seahorses but are now thought to be more closel ...
s.
Species
There are currently ten recognized species in this genus:
* ''
Pungitius bussei''
( Warpachowski, 1888)
* ''
Pungitius hellenicus''
Stephanidis, 1971 (Ellinopygósteos)
* ''
Pungitius laevis''
(G. Cuvier
Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric, Baron Cuvier (; 23 August 1769 – 13 May 1832), known as Georges Cuvier, was a French naturalist and zoologist, sometimes referred to as the "founding father of paleontology". Cuvier was a major figure in nat ...
, 1829) (Smoothtail ninespined stickleback)
*''
Pungitius modestus''
Matsumoto
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, Matsuura
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& Hanzawa, 2021
* ''
Pungitius platygaster''
(Kessler Kessler or Keßler (in German) may refer to:
* Kessler (automobile), an American automobile made 1921–1922
* Kessler (name), people named Kessler
* ''Kessler'' (TV series), a British television series from 1981
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, 1859) (Southern ninespined stickleback)
* ''
Pungitius polyakovi''
S. V. Shedko, M. B. Shedko & Pietsch, 2005
* ''
Pungitius pungitius
The ninespine stickleback (''Pungitius pungitius''), also called the ten-spined stickleback, is a freshwater species of fish in the family Gasterosteidae that inhabits temperate waters. It is widely but locally distributed throughout Eurasia and ...
''
(Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the ...
, 1758
Events
January–March
* January 1 – Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus (Carl von Linné) publishes in Stockholm the first volume (''Animalia'') of the 10th edition of Systema Naturae, 10th edition of ''Systema Naturae'', the sta ...
) (Ninespined stickleback)
* ''
Pungitius sinensis''
( Guichenot, 1869) (Amur stickleback)
* ''
Pungitius stenurus''
(Kessler Kessler or Keßler (in German) may refer to:
* Kessler (automobile), an American automobile made 1921–1922
* Kessler (name), people named Kessler
* ''Kessler'' (TV series), a British television series from 1981
* Kessler, Ohio, an unincorporat ...
, 1876)
* ''
Pungitius tymensis''
( A. M. Nikolskii, 1889) (Sakhalin stickleback)
References
Gasterosteidae
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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