Pungitius pungitius (Linnaeus 1758) pungitius (Linnaeus 1758
- Dataset
- Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Actinopterygii
- order
- Gasterosteiformes
- family
- Gasterosteidae
- genus
- Pungitius
- species
- Pungitius pungitius
description
Ninespine Stickleback. To 9 cm (3.5 in) TL. Circumboreal; Korea to Seas of Japan and Okhotsk to Bering, Chukchi, and Beaufort Seas, and western and northern Gulf of Alaska coasts into northeastern British Columbia. Anadromous and resident freshwater forms; marine populations most common in marshes and estuaries; depth: very shallow waters to 110 m (361 ft). All in Mecklenburg et al. (2002), Page and Burr (1991), and Coad (1995).