#stickleback__prickleback small (2-4 inches) pugnacious mostly scaleless spiny-backed fishes of northern fresh and littoral waters having elaborate courtship; subjects of much research
supertype: spiny-finned_fish__acanthopterygian a teleost fish with fins that are supported by sharp inflexible rays
member of: family_Gasterosteidae
subtype: three-spined_stickleback__Gasterosteus_aculeatus of rivers and coastal regions
subtype: ten-spined_stickleback__Gasterosteus_pungitius confined to rivers
No statement uses or specializes stickleback; click here to add one.