Pungitius
| Pungitius Temporal range: Late Miocene to Present[1] | |
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| Nine-spined Stickleback (P. pungitius) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Gasterosteiformes |
| Family: | Gasterosteidae |
| Genus: | Pungitius Coste (fr), 1848 |
| Type species | |
| Pungitius pungitius (Linnaeus, 1758) | |
| Species | |
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Pungitius is a genus of sticklebacks.
Species
There are currently nine recognized species in this genus:[2]
- Pungitius bussei (Warpachowski, 1888)
- Pungitius hellenicus Stephanidis, 1971 (Ellinopygósteos)
- Pungitius laevis (G. Cuvier, 1829) (Smoothtail ninespined stickleback)
- 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
- ↑ Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Retrieved 2008-01-08.
- ↑ Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2012). Species of Pungitius in FishBase. October 2012 version.
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