Order that includes seahorses, sticklebacks, and pipefishes.
Common name for fish found mostly in the family Gasterosteidae. The three-spine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) is frequently studied.
Group of fish under the superorder Acanthopterygii, separate from the PERCIFORMES, which includes swamp eels, mullets, sticklebacks, seahorses, spiny eels, rainbowfishes, and KILLIFISHES. The name is derived from the six taxa which comprise the group. (From http://www.nanfa.org/articles/Elassoma/elassoma.htm, 8/4/2000)
Synonyms: Smegmamorpha, Eel, Swamp, txid43698, Seahorse, txid8189, Stickleback, txid1490020, Seahorses, Synbranchidae, Gasterosteiformes, Gasterosteidae, Mullets, txid129917, Sticklebacks, Swamp Eels, txid69291, Swamp Eel, Mullet, Eels, Swamp
Instance information
2002; for STICKLEBACKS use FISHES 1975-2001; for MULLETS use PERCIFORMES 1987-2001 ,note entry term SWAMP EELS; EELS is also available ,2002; for STICKLEBACKS see FISHES 1975-2001; for MULLETS see PERCIFORMES 1987-2001
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