Gasterosteus
Genus of fishes
Gasterosteus genus of ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Gasterosteidae , the sticklebacks. These fishes are found in freshwater, brackish water and marine habitats in the Holarctic region.
Species
There are currently 6 recognized species in this genus:
Additionally there are a number of fossil species including:
† Gasterosteus abnormis Gretchina, 1981 (middle Miocene of Sakhalin , Russia)[ 2] † Gasterosteus doryssus (Jordan , 1907) (=Merriamella doryssa Jordan, 1907 , G. apodus Mural, 1973 ) (late Miocene of Nevada, USA)[ 3] [ 4] † Gasterosteus kamoensis Nazarkin, Yabumoto & Urabe, 2013 (Late Miocene of Japan)[ 2] † Gasterosteus orientalis Sychevskaya, 1981 (middle Miocene of Kamchatka , Russia)[ 2] Gasterosteus doryssus Fossils of essentially modern three-spined sticklebacks, assigned to G. aculeatus , are known from the mid-late Miocene of California, USA.[ 5]
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.
^ a b c Nazarkin, Mikhail V.; Yabumoto, Yoshitaka; Urabe, Atsushi (2013). "A New Miocene Three-Spined Stickleback (Pisces: Gasterosteidae) from Central Japan" . Paleontological Research . 16 (4): 318– 328. doi :10.2517/1342-8144-16.4.318 . ISSN 1342-8144 . ^ Mural, Richard J. (1973). "The Pliocene Sticklebacks of Nevada with a Partial Osteology of the Gasterosteidae" . Copeia . 1973 (4): 721– 735. doi :10.2307/1443072 . ISSN 0045-8511 . ^ Stuart, Yoel E.; Travis, Matthew P.; Bell, Michael A. (2020). "Inferred genetic architecture underlying evolution in a fossil stickleback lineage" . Nature Ecology & Evolution . 4 (11): 1549– 1557. doi :10.1038/s41559-020-01287-x . ISSN 2397-334X . ^ Bell, Michael A.; Stewart, J. D.; Park, Peter J. (2009-06-12). "The World's Oldest Fossil Threespine Stickleback Fish" . Copeia . 2009 (2): 256– 265. doi :10.1643/CG-08-059 . ISSN 0045-8511 .
