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243. Gastrosteus aculeatus* Linnaeus. 

 Common Stickleback. 



Fluviatile, in brackish water, and marine. 



Maritime Provinces; and Gaspe - district, Province of Quebec: also found in Ontario: Hud- 

 son Bay, Labrador, and Greenland: extends southward in the United States to New 

 Jersey: coasts and streams of northern Europe. 



244. Gastrosteus atkinsii Bean. 



Eastern Stickleback. 



Lacustrine and fluviatile. 



Province of Quebec and State of Maine. 



245. Gastrosteus cuvieri Girard. 

 Partly Armoured Stickleback. 

 Lacustrine, fluviatile, and in brackish water. 



Labrador, Newfoundland, and Anticosti Island (Schmitt, 1904, as Gasterosteus bispinosus): 

 extending southward to the coast of Massachusetts. 



246. Gastrosteus cataphractus Pallas. 

 Alaska Stickleback. 



Marine: "rarely or never entering fresh water." 



British Columbia: ranges from California to Alaska, hence to Siberia and Japan. 



247. Gastrosteus williamsoni microcephalus Girard. 

 California Stickleback. 



Coastwise streams and brackish water. 



British Columbia: ranges from Lower California, Mexico, to Alaska. 



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248. Apeltes quadracus Mitchill. 

 Four-spined Stickleback. 

 Marine. 



Maritime Provinces: ranges in the United States from Maine to New Jersey. 



249. Aulorhynchus flavidus Gill. 

 Yellow Stickleback. 

 Marine. 



British Columbia: ranges from coast of California to Alaska. 



250. Fistularia tabacaria Linnaeus. 



Trumpet Fish. 



Marine. 



"Occasional specimens taken in shore waters [of Nova Scotia] during the summer months" 

 (Jones, 1879): ordinary range, "West Indies and neighbouring seas, generally com- 

 mon; occasional northward to Carolina and Florida, or even to Long Island" (Jordan 

 and Evermann): has been recorded also from coast of Massachusetts. 



*0. aculeatus and G. bispinosus are treated here as one and the same species, the European name being adopted 

 for the two. 



