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Order 00. THORACOSTEI 



Suborder HEMIBRANCHH 



Family 149. GASTEROSTEID^. Sticklebacks 



Genus 627. GASTEROSTEUS Linnaeus. Sticklebacks. 



Gasterosteus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. X, 1758, 295 {G. aculeatus Linnseus). 



Gasteracanthus Pallas, Zoog. Rosso.-Asiat., Ill, 1811 (G. cataphractus 

 Pallas) . 



Leiurus Swainson, Nat. Hist. Fish., Amphib., etc., II, 1839, 242 {Gasteros- 

 teus aculeatus Linnaeus). 



Merriamella Jordan, Univ. Calif. Publ. Geol., V, 1907, 131 (M. dorysia 

 Jordan); fossil form. 



1852. Gasterosteus aculeatus Linnajus. Common stickleback. 



Arctic and subarctic regions, in shallow baj's and estuaries, very com- 

 mon; also ascending streams, where it loses partially or wholly its 

 bony plates, in Europe, Asia, and America ahke. The development 

 of these plates and in some degree of dorsal spines and caudal keel 

 depends on the salinity of the water. Reported G. williamsoni 

 microcephalus from irrigation ditch near El Rosario, Lower California, 

 255 miles south of U. S. border, May 21, 1925, Chnton G. Abbott, 

 collector. 



(1. Forms completely mailed) 



Gasterosteus aculeatus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. X, 1758, 489, Europe. 

 Gasterosteus cataphractus Pallas, M6m. Acad. Petersb., Ill, 1811, 325, 



Kamchatka. 

 Gasterosteus trachura Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., IV, 



1829, 481, France. 

 Gasterosteus teraculeatus Lac6p6de, Hist. Nat. Poiss., Ill, 1802, 296. 

 Gasterosteus obolarius Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., IV, 



1829, 500, Kamchatka. 

 Gasterosteus noveboracensis Cuvier and Valenciennes, loc. cit., 502, pi. 98, 



fig. 3. 

 Gasterosteus biaculeatus Shaw, Zool., IV, 1839, 608; after Pennant. 

 Gasterosteus dimidiatus Reinhardt, Fauna Groenlandica, 1837, 32, 37, 



Greenland. 

 Gasterosteus loricalus Reinhardt, loc. cit., 32, 37, Greenland. 

 Gasterosteus bailloui Blanchard, Poiss. des eaux douces de France, 



1866, 231, Abbeville. 

 Gasterosteus insculptus Richardson, Last Arctic Voyage, 1854, 10, 



PI. XXV, figs. 1, 2, and 3, Northumberland and Puget Sounds. 

 Gasterosteus serratus Ayres, Proc. Calif. Acad. Nat. Sci., I, 1855, 47, 



San Francisco. 



{2. Forms armed anteriorly only) 



Gasterosteus gymnnrus Cuvier, R^gne Animal, ed. II, 1829, 170, waters 



of England and northward. 

 Gasterosteus leiurus Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., IV, 



1829, 481, Seine. 

 Gasterosteus semiarmatus Cuvier and Valenciennes, loc. cit., 493, Havre, 



France. 

 Gasterosteus semiloricatus Cuvier and Valenciennes, loc. cit., 494, 



Baillon. 

 Gasterosteus spinulosus Jenyns and Yarrell, Man. Brit. Vert., 1835, 



3.50, Edinburgh. 

 Gasterosteus ponticus Nordmann, in Demidoff, Voy. Russ. Merid., Ill, 



1840, 357, Tauria and Black Sea. 

 Gasterosteus cuvieri Girard, in Storer's Fishes of Nova Scotia and 



Labrador, 1849, 254, p. VII, fig. 1, Bras d'Or, Red Bay, Labrador. 

 Gasterosteus microcephalus Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pliila., VII, 



1854, 133, Four Creek (Kawcah River), a tributary to Tule Lake 



(Tulare Lake), San Joaquin Valley, Calif. 

 Gasterosteus plebeius Girard, loc. cit., 147, Presidio, Calif. 



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