The threespine stickleback is a small fish, family Gasterosteidae, named for the three sharp spines along its back that it raises to deter predators. It lives in both marine and freshwater habitats across much of the Northern Hemisphere, and populations that colonized freshwater lakes after the last ice age have repeatedly evolved similar changes in armor and body shape, making it one of the most studied examples of rapid evolution in a wild vertebrate. Males build a nest from plant material and guard the eggs and young until they can swim independently.
Facts
Classification
System (Realm) System (Realm) Living or Extinct Scientific Name Conservation Status Connections
Child Taxon Of
Source Three-spined stickleback (Wikidata)
In Biome
Source Animal Diversity Web, University of Michigan Museum of Zoology: Animal Diversity Web: Gasterosteus aculeatus
Lake, Biomes Source Animal Diversity Web, University of Michigan Museum of Zoology: Animal Diversity Web: Gasterosteus aculeatus
Source Animal Diversity Web, University of Michigan Museum of Zoology: Animal Diversity Web: Gasterosteus aculeatus
River, Biomes Source Animal Diversity Web, University of Michigan Museum of Zoology: Animal Diversity Web: Gasterosteus aculeatus
In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: Algeria, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Austria, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Azerbaijan, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Belarus, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Belgium, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Bulgaria, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Canada, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Czechia, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Denmark, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Estonia, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Finland, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: France, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Georgia, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Germany, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Hungary, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Iceland, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Iran, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Ireland, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Italy, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Latvia, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Lithuania, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Luxembourg, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Netherlands, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: North America, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Norway, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Poland, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Portugal, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Romania, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Serbia, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Spain, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Switzerland, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: United Kingdom, found in there.
Sources
1. Three-spined stickleback (Wikidata)
Wikidata- Wikidata Q203572 (P225 taxon name)
- Introduction
Statements section, conservation status (P141)
IUCN Red List conservation status (Wikidata property P141): least concern.
- Child Taxon Of: Gasterosteiformes, Wikidata parent-taxon (P171) chain
View the Source 2. GBIF Species API
3. Threespine Stickleback (Wikipedia)
Animal Diversity Web, University of Michigan Museum of Zoology: Animal Diversity Web: Gasterosteus aculeatus
Animal Diversity Web, University of Michigan Museum of ZoologyIn Biome: Lake, Habitat Regions, biome: lakes and ponds
lakes and ponds
In Biome: River, Habitat Regions, biome: rivers and streams
rivers and streams
In Biome: Intertidal Zone, Habitat Regions, biome: intertidal or littoral
intertidal or littoral intertidal or littoral
In Biome: Open Ocean, Habitat Regions, biome: pelagic
pelagic pelagic
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