Pungitius

Pungitius Temporal range: Late Miocene to Present^[1]

nine-spined stickleback Pungitius pungitius
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Gasterosteiformes
Family:	Gasterosteidae
Genus:	Pungitius
Species
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Pungitius is a genus of fish in the Gasterosteidae family. It contains the following species:

Pungitius bussei (Warpachowski, 1888)
Pungitius hellenicus Stephanidis, 1971 Ellinopygósteos
Pungitius laevis (Cuvier, 1829) Smoothtail ninespine stickleback
Pungitius platygaster (Kessler, 1859) Southern ninespine stickleback
Pungitius polyakovi Shedko, Shedko & Pietsch, 2005
Pungitius pungitius (Linnaeus, 1758) Ninespine stickleback
Pungitius sinensis (Guichenot, 1869) Amur stickleback
Pungitius stenurus (Kessler, 1876)
Pungitius tymensis (Nikolskii, 1889) Sakhalin stickleback

References

^ Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology 364: p.560. http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=611&rank=class. Retrieved 2008-01-08.

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