Taxa

Gasterosteiformes

Order

Citation Formats

General Reference

Nature Atlas. "Gasterosteiformes." Accessed September 8, 2026. https://nature.interactiveatlas.org/taxa/order-gasterosteiformes.

APA Style

Nature Atlas. (n.d.). Gasterosteiformes. Retrieved September 8, 2026, from https://nature.interactiveatlas.org/taxa/order-gasterosteiformes

BibTeX

@misc{natureatlas-gasterosteiformes,
  author = {Nature Atlas},
  title = {Gasterosteiformes},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://nature.interactiveatlas.org/taxa/order-gasterosteiformes},
  note = {Accessed September 8, 2026}
}

Gasterosteiformes is the traditional order name for the sticklebacks and their relatives. Modern classifications increasingly treat the group instead as the suborder Gasterosteoidei within the much larger order Perciformes, rather than as an independent order.

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