Pungitius

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Pungitius
Temporal range: Late Miocene to Present[1]
Pungitius pungitius.jpg
Nine-spined Stickleback (P. pungitius)
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Gasterosteiformes
Family: Gasterosteidae
Genus: Pungitius
(fr), 1848
Type species
Pungitius pungitius
Species

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Pungitius is a genus of sticklebacks.

Species[]

There are currently nine recognized species in this genus:[2]

  • (, 1888)
  • Pungitius hellenicus , 1971 (Ellinopygósteos)
  • (G. Cuvier, 1829) (Smoothtail ninespined stickleback)
  • Pungitius platygaster (Kessler, 1859) (Southern ninespined stickleback)
  • , & Pietsch, 2005
  • Pungitius pungitius (Linnaeus, 1758) (Ninespined stickleback)
  • Pungitius sinensis (Guichenot, 1869) (Amur stickleback)
  • (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. ^ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2012). Species of Pungitius in FishBase. October 2012 version.


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