Biology:Gasterosteus

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Gasterosteus is a 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:

  • Gasterosteus aculeatus Linnaeus, 1758 (Three-spined stickleback)
  • Gasterosteus crenobiontus Băcescu & R. Mayer, 1956 (Techirghiol stickleback)
  • Gasterosteus islandicus Sauvage, 1874 (Iceland stickleback)
  • Gasterosteus microcephalus Girard, 1854 (Smallhead stickleback)
  • Gasterosteus nipponicus Higuchi, Sakai & A. Goto, 2014 [1]
  • Gasterosteus wheatlandi Putnam, 1867 (Black-spotted stickleback)

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, a fossil freshwater species from Nevada

Fossils of essentially modern three-spined sticklebacks, assigned to G. aculeatus, are known from the mid-late Miocene of California, USA.[5]

References

  1. 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.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Nazarkin, Mikhail V.; Yabumoto, Yoshitaka; Urabe, Atsushi (2013). "A New Miocene Three-Spined Stickleback (Pisces: Gasterosteidae) from Central Japan" (in en). Paleontological Research 16 (4): 318–328. doi:10.2517/1342-8144-16.4.318. ISSN 1342-8144. http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.2517/1342-8144-16.4.318. 
  3. 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. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1443072. 
  4. Stuart, Yoel E.; Travis, Matthew P.; Bell, Michael A. (2020). "Inferred genetic architecture underlying evolution in a fossil stickleback lineage" (in en). Nature Ecology & Evolution 4 (11): 1549–1557. doi:10.1038/s41559-020-01287-x. ISSN 2397-334X. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-020-01287-x. 
  5. Bell, Michael A.; Stewart, J. D.; Park, Peter J. (2009-06-12). "The World's Oldest Fossil Threespine Stickleback Fish" (in en). Copeia 2009 (2): 256–265. doi:10.1643/CG-08-059. ISSN 0045-8511. http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1643/CG-08-059. 

Wikidata ☰ Q134491 entry