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Definition of Sticklebacks

Stickleback
Stickleback Stic"kle*back`, n. [OE. & Prov E. stickle a prickle, spine, sting (AS. sticel) + back. See Stick, v. t., and cf. Banstickle.] (Zo["o]l.) Any one of numerous species of small fishes of the genus Gasterosteus and allied genera. The back is armed with two or more sharp spines. They inhabit both salt and brackish water, and construct curious nests. Called also sticklebag, sharpling, and prickleback.

Meaning of Sticklebacks from wikipedia

- the marine species. Sticklebacks are carnivorous, feeding on small animals such as insects, crustaceans and fish larvae. Sticklebacks are characterised...
- three-spined stickleback departs from the usual pattern of parental care. Unlike other sticklebacks that nest on the substrate, Nova Scotian male sticklebacks build...
- eu, meaning "well" and calia, meaning "nested", and allusion to the sticklebacks' building of nests. The specific name incosntans means "variable" and...
- Frostastaðavatn, and Mývatn. The species is differentiated from other sticklebacks by having a deep notch on the anterior margin of the pelvic girdle. As...
- USS Stickleback (SS-415), a Balao-class submarine, was named for the stickleback, a small scaleless fish. Her keel was laid down on 1 March 1944 by the...
- ninespine sticklebacks (Teleostei, Gasterosteidae). Cybium, 24(2): 107–122. Keivany, Y. and J.S. Nelson. 2004. Phylogenetic relationships of sticklebacks (Gasterosteidae)...
- The smallhead stickleback (Gasterosteus microcephalus), or resident threespined stickleback, is a fish species, which widespread in the basin of the Pacific...
- ninespine sticklebacks (Teleostei, Gasterosteidae)". Cybium. 24 (2): 107–122. Keivany, Y.; Nelson, J.S. (2004). "Phylogenetic relationships of sticklebacks (Gasterosteidae)...
- Gasterosteoidei is a suborder of ray-finned fishes that includes the sticklebacks and relatives, the 5th edition of Fishes of the World classifies this...
- the sticklebacks. The only species in the genus is Spinachia spinachia, the sea stickleback, fifteen-spined stickleback or fifteenspine stickleback, a...