Pungitius

Genus of fishes

Pungitius
Temporal range: Late Miocene to Present[1]
Nine-spined Stickleback (P. pungitius)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Scorpaeniformes
Family: Gasterosteidae
Genus: Pungitius
d'Annone, 1760[2]
Type species
Gasterosteus pungitius
(Linnaeus, 1758)
Species

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Pungitius is a genus of sticklebacks.

Species

There are currently ten recognized species in this genus:[3]

  • Pungitius bussei (Warpachowski, 1888)
  • Pungitius hellenicus Stephanidis, 1971 (Ellinopygósteos)
  • Pungitius laevis (G. Cuvier, 1829) (Smoothtail ninespined stickleback)
  • Pungitius modestus Matsumoto, Matsuura & Hanzawa, 2021[4]
  • Pungitius platygaster (Kessler, 1859) (Southern ninespined stickleback)
  • Pungitius polyakovi S. V. Shedko, M. B. Shedko & Pietsch, 2005
  • Pungitius pungitius (Linnaeus, 1758) (Ninespined stickleback)
  • Pungitius sinensis (Guichenot, 1869) (Amur stickleback)
  • Pungitius stenurus (Kessler, 1876)
  • Pungitius tymensis (A. M. Nikolskii, 1889) (Sakhalin stickleback)

References

  1. ^ Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Retrieved 2008-01-08.
  2. ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Gasterosteidae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 24 November 2022.
  3. ^ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2012). Species of Pungitius in FishBase. October 2012 version.
  4. ^ Tatsuya Matsumoto; Keiichi Matsuura & Naoto Hanzawa (2021). "A new species of nine-spined stickleback, Pungitius modestus(Gasterosteiformes, Gasterosteidae), from northern Honshu, Japan". Zootaxa. 5005 (1): 001–020. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5005.1.1. PMID 34811283.
Taxon identifiers
Pungitius
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