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Gasterosteus aculeatus
Burnstickle Burn"stic`kle, n. (Zo["o]l.) A stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus).
Gasterosteus cataphractus
Note: The salmons ascend rivers and penetrate to their head streams to spawn. They are remarkably strong fishes, and will even leap over considerable falls which lie in the way of their progress. The common salmon has been known to grow to the weight of seventy-five pounds; more generally it is from fifteen to twenty-five pounds. Young salmon are called parr, peal, smolt, and grilse. Among the true salmons are: Black salmon, or Lake salmon, the namaycush. Dog salmon, a salmon of Western North America (Oncorhynchus keta). Humpbacked salmon, a Pacific-coast salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha). King salmon, the quinnat. Landlocked salmon, a variety of the common salmon (var. Sebago), long confined in certain lakes in consequence of obstructions that prevented it from returning to the sea. This last is called also dwarf salmon. Note: Among fishes of other families which are locally and erroneously called salmon are: the pike perch, called jack salmon; the spotted, or southern, squeteague; the cabrilla, called kelp salmon; young pollock, called sea salmon; and the California yellowtail. 2. A reddish yellow or orange color, like the flesh of the salmon. Salmon berry (Bot.), a large red raspberry growing from Alaska to California, the fruit of the Rubus Nutkanus. Salmon killer (Zo["o]l.), a stickleback (Gasterosteus cataphractus) of Western North America and Northern Asia. Salmon ladder, Salmon stair. See Fish ladder, under Fish. Salmon peel, a young salmon. Salmon pipe, a certain device for catching salmon. --Crabb. Salmon trout. (Zo["o]l.) (a) The European sea trout (Salmo trutta). It resembles the salmon, but is smaller, and has smaller and more numerous scales. (b) The American namaycush. (c) A name that is also applied locally to the adult black spotted trout (Salmo purpuratus), and to the steel head and other large trout of the Pacific coast.
Gasterosteus spinachia
Sea adder Sea" ad"der (Zo["o]l.) (a) The European fifteen-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus spinachia); -- called also bismore. (b) The European tanglefish, or pipefish (Syngnathus acus).
Gasterosteus spinachia
Bismer Bis"mer, n. 1. A rule steelyard. [Scot.] 2. (Zo["o]l.) The fifteen-spined (Gasterosteus spinachia).

Meaning of Gasterosteus from wikipedia

- 6 recognized species in this genus: Gasterosteus aculeatus Linnaeus, 1758 (Three-spined stickleback) †Gasterosteus crenobiontus Băcescu & R. Mayer, 1956...
- a longstanding tendency of the Gasterosteus lineage. These traits are all present in a fossil stickleback, Gasterosteus doryssus, known from Miocene-aged...
- identified all sticklebacks from the formation as Gasterosteus doryssus. The species Gasterosteus apodus, coined for the Lineage II po****tions that...
- (1988). "Shoaling and kin recognition in the threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus L.)". Biology of Behaviour. 13: 190–201. Krause, J. (1993)...
- Firth, which is connected via the River Ness) Three-spined stickleback Gasterosteus aculeatus. Brook lamprey Lampetra planeri Eurasian minnow Phoxinus phoxinus...
- cells and the successful induction of polyploidy in the stickleback, Gasterosteus aculatus, in 1956 by Har Swarup reported in Nature. At that time he could...
- Gasterosteiformes Gasterosteidae Gasterosteus aculeatus Yes Hornsíli Three-spined stickleback Gasterosteiformes Gasterosteidae Gasterosteus islandicus Yes Iceland...
- Gasterosteus nipponicus is a species of ray-finned fish belonging to the family Gasterosteidae, the sticklebacks. This species is found in the northwestern...
- includes the following genera: Apeltes DeKay, 1842 Culaea Whitley, 1950 Gasterosteus Linnaeus, 1758 Pungitius d'Annone, 1760 Spinachia Cuvier, 1816 Sticklebacks...
- Three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) males (red belly) build nests and compete to attract females to lay eggs in them. Males then defend and...