| Spinachia | |
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| Sea Stickleback (Spinachia spinachia) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Gasterosteiformes |
| Family: | Gasterosteidae |
| Genus: | Spinachia Cuvier, 1816 |
| Species: | S. spinachia |
| Binomial name | |
| Spinachia spinachia (Linnaeus, 1758) |
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Spinachia is a genus of fish in the Gasterosteidae family. It contains only one species, the Sea Stickleback, also known as Fifteen-spined or Fifteenspine stickleback, (Spinachia spinachia), which lives in benthopelagic and in brackish environments of the northeastern Atlantic Ocean.
Although it is the largest form of stickleback, the Sea Stickleback is a small fish, reaching a maximum length of 22 cm. It has no commercial interest in fishing.[1]