Pungitius

Pungitius
Temporal range: Late Miocene to Present[1]
Nine-spined Stickleback (P. pungitius)
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Pungitius

Coste (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]

  • 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

  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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