Gasterosteus islandicus: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Actinopterygii
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Gasterosteidae
- Genus
- Gasterosteus
- Species
- Gasterosteus islandicus
- Scientific Name
- Gasterosteus islandicus
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Icelandic threespine stickleback
The Icelandic threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus islandicus) is a freshwater fish, and one of the few vertebrate species endemic to Iceland. In some literature it is considered as a subspecies of G. aculeatus, though several authorities offer it full species status. It was first described by French biologist Henri Émile Sauvage in 1874.
...Gasterosteus islandicus in languages:
- Czech
- koljuška islandská
- English
- Iceland Stickeback
Images from inaturalist.org observations:
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