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ablement) construct their nests on the ground and open to view; the 

 inany-spined sticklebacks (Epinochettes) on the contrary always 

 attach theirs to vegetation, such as the leaves of aquatic plants. Coste 

 considered this difference to be of importance enough to indicate 

 generic distinction for the fishes making the nests, and consequently 



Fig. 86.— Nest o( 'I'eii-siiiut'd Stickleback. Fcuialc incparinj; tu enter ;i nest to lay her 



eggs. After Coste. 



he restricted the name Gasterosteus to the three-spined sticklebacks, 

 and proposed Pungitius for the many-spined species." 



« As the nomeiiclatural proposition has been universally overlooked, and the 

 work in which it is published is inaccessible to most, Coste's own words, cont-lud- 

 iiig the generalization, may be given : "* * * diffei'ence caracteristique qui 

 parit justifier la separation qu'ou a faite de ces poissons en deux genres {Gas- 

 terosteus et Pungitius).'' Pungitius thus anticipates Fygosteus. 

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