Pungitius

Pungitius
Temporal range: Late Miocene to Present[1]
Nine-spined Stickleback (P. pungitius)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Gasterosteiformes
Family: Gasterosteidae
Genus: Pungitius
Coste (fr), 1848
Type species
Pungitius pungitius
(Linnaeus, 1758)
Species

See text

Pungitius is a genus of sticklebacks.

Species

There are currently nine recognized species in this genus:[2]

References

  1. Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology 364: 560. Retrieved 2008-01-08.
  2. Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2012). Species of Pungitius in FishBase. October 2012 version.


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