Smallhead stickleback
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| Family: | Gasterosteidae
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| Species: | G. microcephalus
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| Gasterosteus microcephalus Girard, 1854
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Smallhead stickleback (Gasterosteus microcephalus) is a fish species, which widespread in the basin of the Pacific Ocean: Japan, also Mexico. Freshwater demersal fish, up to 5.5 cm length. Habits small streams, where feeds on aquatic insects and other invertebrates.
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- Gasterosteus
- Fish of Japan
- Fish of Mexican Pacific coast
- Fish described in 1854
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