Pungitius

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Megaclassis: Osteichthyes
Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii
Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri
Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii
Infraclassis: Teleostei
Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai
Supercohors: Clupeocephala
Cohors: Euteleosteomorpha
Subcohors: Neoteleostei
Infracohors: Eurypterygia
Sectio: Ctenosquamata
Subsectio: Acanthomorphata
Divisio/Superordo: Acanthopterygii
Subdivisio: Percomorphaceae
Series: Eupercaria
Ordo: Perciformes
Subordo: Cottoidei
Infraordo: Gasterosteales

Familia: Gasterosteidae
Genus: Pungitius
Species: P. bussei – P. hellenicus – P. laevis – P. platygaster – P. polyakovi – P. pungitius – P. sinensis – P. stenurus – P. tymensis
Name

Pungitius Coste, 1848
References

Pungitius at FishBase

Pungitius is a genus of sticklebacks.
Species

There are currently ten recognized species in this genus:[3]

Pungitius bussei (Warpachowski, 1888)
Pungitius hellenicus Stephanidis, 1971 (Ellinopygósteos)
Pungitius laevis (G. Cuvier, 1829) (Smoothtail ninespined stickleback)
Pungitius modestus Matsumoto, Matsuura & Hanzawa, 2021[4]
Pungitius platygaster (Kessler, 1859) (Southern ninespined stickleback)
Pungitius polyakovi S. V. Shedko, M. B. Shedko & Pietsch, 2005
Pungitius pungitius (Linnaeus, 1758) (Ninespined stickleback)
Pungitius sinensis (Guichenot, 1869) (Amur stickleback)
Pungitius stenurus (Kessler, 1876)
Pungitius tymensis (A. M. Nikolskii, 1889) (Sakhalin stickleback)

References

Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Retrieved 2008-01-08.
Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Gasterosteidae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 24 November 2022.
Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2012). Species of Pungitius in FishBase. October 2012 version.
Tatsuya Matsumoto; Keiichi Matsuura & Naoto Hanzawa (2021). "A new species of nine-spined stickleback, Pungitius modestus(Gasterosteiformes, Gasterosteidae), from northern Honshu, Japan". Zootaxa. 5005 (1): 001–020. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5005.1.1. PMID 34811283.