Blackspotted stickleback
SpeciesFish
A small stickleback fish of western Atlantic coastal waters.
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Blackspotted stickleback
- Fish
The blackspotted stickleback, Gasterosteus wheatlandi, is a species of ray-finned fish in the stickleback family Gasterosteidae. It occurs in the western Atlantic, from Newfoundland, Canada, to Massachusetts, United States. It lives near shore in marine and brackish water, rarely entering freshwater, and is often associated with floating vegetation. Males build nests where females lay eggs, then guard and aerate them.
- Scientific name
- Gasterosteus wheatlandi
- Range
- Western Atlantic, from Newfoundland to Massachusetts
- Maximum published length
- 7.6 cm (3.0 in)
Sources and credits
Sources and credits
- Article
- Blackspotted stickleback (English Wikipedia)
- Wikidata
- Q1431913
- Text
- Card text is adapted from the English Wikipedia article by an automated summary. Wikipedia content is available under CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for its contributors. CC BY-SA 4.0 · Article history and contributors
- Illustration
- By Ghegeman. CC BY-SA 4.0 · File page on Wikimedia CommonsGhegeman, Own workModifications: Resized and converted to WebP
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