Pungitius
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Pungitius is a genus of fish
Fish
Fish are a paraphyletic group of organisms that consist of all gill-bearing aquatic vertebrate animals that lack limbs with digits. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish, as well as various extinct related groups...

 in the Gasterosteidae family.
It contains the following species:
  • Pungitius bussei (Warpachowski, 1888)
  • Pungitius hellenicus Stephanidis, 1971 Ellinopygósteos
    Ellinopygósteos
    The ellinopygósteos is a species of fish in the Gasterosteidae family. It is endemic to Greece. Its natural habitats are rivers and freshwater spring...

  • Pungitius laevis (Cuvier, 1829) Smoothtail ninespine stickleback
  • Pungitius platygaster (Kessler, 1859) Southern ninespine stickleback
  • Pungitius polyakovi Shedko, Shedko & Pietsch, 2005
  • Pungitius pungitius (Linnaeus, 1758) Ninespine stickleback
    Ninespine stickleback
    The ninespine stickleback , also called the ten-spined stickleback, is a freshwater species of fish in the Gasterosteidae family that inhabits temperate waters...

  • Pungitius sinensis (Guichenot, 1869) Amur stickleback
    Amur stickleback
    Amur stickleback is a species of fish in the family Gasterosteidae. Freshwater / brackishwater / marine benthopelagic fish, up to 6.5 length. Widespread in Asia: Korean peninsula, Japan, Kuril Islands, Kamchatka peninsula, and the basin of the Amur River.- Links :*...

  • Pungitius stenurus (Kessler, 1876)
  • Pungitius tymensis (Nikolskii, 1889) Sakhalin stickleback
    Sakhalin stickleback
    Sakhalin stickleback is a fish of the Gasterosteidae family. Freshwater benthopelagic fish, up to 7.0 cm length. Endemic of the islands of Hokkaido і Sakhalin.- Links :*...

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