Stichaeidae

Pricklebacks

45 species

1. 1Alectrias alectrolophus (Pallas, 1814) · Stone cockscombocean · temperate
2. 2Alectrias benjamini Jordan & Snyder, 1902 · Spiny cockscombocean · temperate
3. 3Alectrias cirratus (Lindberg, 1938) · Ciliate cockscombocean · polar
4. 4Alectrias gallinus (Lindberg, 1938) · Shaggy cockscombocean · temperate
5. 5Alectrias markevichi Sheiko, 2012ocean · temperate
6. 6Alectrias mutsuensis Shiogaki, 1985 · Maned cockscombocean · temperate
7. 7Alectridium aurantiacum Gilbert & Burke, 1912 · Lesser pricklebackocean · polar
8. 8Anoplarchus insignis Gilbert & Burke, 1912 · Slender cockscombocean · temperate
9. 9Anoplarchus purpurescens Gill, 1861 · High cockscombocean · temperate
10. 10Bryozoichthys lysimus (Jordan & Snyder, 1902) · Nutcracker pricklebackocean · boreal
11. 11Bryozoichthys marjorius McPhail, 1970 · Pearly pricklebackocean · deep-water
12. 12Chirolophis ascanii (Walbaum, 1792) · Yarrell's blennyocean · temperate
13. 13Chirolophis decoratus (Jordan & Snyder, 1902) · Decorated warbonnetocean · temperate
14. 14Chirolophis japonicus Herzenstein, 1890ocean · temperate
15. 15Chirolophis nugator (Jordan & Williams, 1895) · Mosshead warbonnetocean · temperate
16. 16Chirolophis saitone (Jordan & Snyder, 1902)ocean · temperate
17. 17Chirolophis snyderi (Taranetz, 1938) · Bearded warbonnetocean · temperate
18. 18Chirolophis tarsodes (Jordan & Snyder, 1902) · Matcheek warbonnetocean · temperate
19. 19Chirolophis wui (Wang & Wang, 1935)ocean · temperate
20. 20Dictyosoma burgeri van der Hoeven, 1855ocean · temperate
21. 21Dictyosoma rubrimaculatum Yatsu, Yasuda & Taki, 1978ocean · subtropical · reef
22. 22Dictyosoma tongyeongensis Ji & Kim, 2012 · Korean pricklebackocean · temperate
23. 23Ernogrammus hexagrammus (Schlegel, 1845) · Six-lined pricklebackocean · temperate
24. 24Ernogrammus walkeri Follett & Powell, 1988 · Masked pricklebackocean · subtropical
25. 25Ernogrammus zhirmunskii Markevich & Kharin, 2011 · Seven-lined pricklebackocean · temperate
26. 26Esselenichthys carli (Follett & Anderson, 1990) · Threeline pricklebackocean · subtropical
27. 27Esselenichthys laurae (Follett & Anderson, 1990) · Twoline pricklebackocean · subtropical
28. 28Eumesogrammus praecisus (Krøyer, 1836) · Fourline snakeblennyocean · polar
29. 29Gymnoclinus cristulatus Gilbert & Burke, 1912 · Trident pricklebackocean · polar
30. 30Phytichthys chirus (Jordan & Gilbert, 1880) · Ribbon pricklebackocean · temperate
31. 31Plagiogrammus hopkinsii Bean, 1894 · Crisscross pricklebackocean · subtropical
32. 32Pseudalectrias tarasovi (Popov, 1933)ocean · polar
33. 33Soldatovia polyactocephala (Pallas, 1814)ocean · polar
34. 34Stichaeopsis epallax (Jordan & Snyder, 1902)ocean · temperate
35. 35Stichaeopsis nana Kner, 1870ocean · temperate
36. 36Stichaeopsis nevelskoi (Schmidt, 1904)ocean · polar
37. 37Stichaeus fuscus Miki & Maruyama, 1986ocean · temperate
38. 38Stichaeus grigorjewi Herzenstein, 1890ocean · temperate
39. 39Stichaeus nozawae Jordan & Snyder, 1902ocean · temperate
40. 40Stichaeus ochriamkini Taranetz, 1935ocean · polar
41. 41Stichaeus pulcherrimus Taranetz, 1935ocean · temperate
42. 42Stichaeus punctatus (Fabricius, 1780) · Arctic shannyocean · polar
43. 43Ulvaria subbifurcata (Storer, 1839) · Radiated shannyocean · temperate
44. 44Xiphister atropurpureus (Kittlitz, 1858) · Black pricklebackocean · subtropical
45. 45Xiphister mucosus (Girard, 1858) · Rock pricklebackocean · subtropical

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