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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Scorpaeniformes |
Family: | Gasterosteidae |
Genus: | Gasterosteus |
Species: | G. microcephalus
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Binomial name | |
Gasterosteus microcephalus
Girard, 1854
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Synonyms | |
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The smallhead stickleback (Gasterosteus microcephalus), or resident threespined stickleback, is a fish species, which widespread in the basin of the Pacific Ocean: Japan, also Mexico. Freshwater demersal fish, up to 5.5 cm (2.2 in) length. Habits small streams, where feeds on aquatic insects and other invertebrates. [1] This taxon is regarded by some authorities as a synonym of the three-spined stickleback (G. aculeatus), [2] and others treat it as a subspecies of the three-spined stickleback, G. a. microcephalus. [3]
Smallhead stickleback | |
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Scorpaeniformes |
Family: | Gasterosteidae |
Genus: | Gasterosteus |
Species: | G. microcephalus
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Binomial name | |
Gasterosteus microcephalus
Girard, 1854
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Synonyms | |
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The smallhead stickleback (Gasterosteus microcephalus), or resident threespined stickleback, is a fish species, which widespread in the basin of the Pacific Ocean: Japan, also Mexico. Freshwater demersal fish, up to 5.5 cm (2.2 in) length. Habits small streams, where feeds on aquatic insects and other invertebrates. [1] This taxon is regarded by some authorities as a synonym of the three-spined stickleback (G. aculeatus), [2] and others treat it as a subspecies of the three-spined stickleback, G. a. microcephalus. [3]