Pungitius
Genus of fishes
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Pungitius is a genus of sticklebacks.
| Pungitius | |
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| Nine-spined stickleback (P. pungitius) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Family: | Gasterosteidae |
| Genus: | Pungitius d'Annone, 1760[2] |
| Type species | |
| Gasterosteus pungitius | |
| Species | |
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Species
There are currently ten recognized species in this genus:[3]
- Pungitius bussei (Warpachowski, 1888)
- Pungitius hellenicus Stephanidis, 1971 (Ellinopygósteos)
- Pungitius laevis (G. Cuvier, 1829) (Smoothtail ninespined stickleback)
- Pungitius modestus Matsumoto, Matsuura & Hanzawa, 2021[4]
- Pungitius platygaster (Kessler, 1859) (Southern ninespined stickleback)
- Pungitius polyakovi S. V. Shedko, M. B. Shedko & Pietsch, 2005
- Pungitius pungitius (Linnaeus, 1758) (Ninespined stickleback)
- Pungitius sinensis (Guichenot, 1869) (Amur stickleback)
- Pungitius stenurus (Kessler, 1876)
- Pungitius tymensis (A. M. Nikolskii, 1889) (Sakhalin stickleback)
