Gasterosteidae

Sticklebacks and tubesnouts

20 species

1. 1Apeltes quadracus (Mitchill, 1815) · Fourspine sticklebackfresh · brackish · ocean · temperate
2. 2Culaea inconstans (Kirtland, 1840) · Brook sticklebackfresh · temperate
3. 3Gasterosteus aculeatus Linnaeus, 1758 · Three-spined sticklebackfresh · brackish · ocean · subtropical
4. 4Gasterosteus crenobiontus Băcescu & Mayer, 1956 · Techirghiol sticklebackfresh · temperate
5. 5Gasterosteus islandicus Sauvage, 1874fresh · temperate
6. 6Gasterosteus microcephalus Girard, 1854fresh · subtropical
7. 7Gasterosteus nipponicus Higuchi, Sakai & Goto, 2014fresh · brackish · ocean · subtropical
8. 8Gasterosteus wheatlandi Putnam, 1867 · Blackspotted sticklebackbrackish · ocean · temperate
9. 9Pungitius bussei (Warpachowski, 1888)fresh · boreal
10. 10Pungitius hellenicus Stephanidis, 1971fresh · subtropical
11. 11Pungitius laevis (Cuvier, 1829) · Smoothtail ninespine sticklebackfresh · brackish · ocean · temperate
12. 12Pungitius modestus Matsumoto, Matsuura & Hanzawa, 2021fresh · subtropical
13. 13Pungitius platygaster (Kessler, 1859) · Southern ninespine sticklebackfresh · brackish · ocean · temperate
14. 14Pungitius polyakovi Shedko, Shedko & Pietsch, 2005ocean · temperate
15. 15Pungitius pungitius (Linnaeus, 1758) · Ninespine sticklebackfresh · brackish · ocean · boreal
16. 16Pungitius sinensis (Guichenot, 1869) · Amur sticklebackfresh · brackish · ocean · temperate
17. 17Pungitius stenurus (Kessler, 1876)fresh · temperate
18. 18Pungitius tymensis (Nikolskii, 1889) · Sakhalin sticklebackfresh · temperate
19. 19Pungitius vulgaris (Mauduyt, 1848) · Poitevin sticklebackfresh · temperate
20. 20Spinachia spinachia (Linnaeus, 1758) · Sea sticklebackbrackish · ocean · temperate

Source: FishBase v25.04 (fishbase.org), via cboettig/fishbase, fetched 2026-10-18.