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Definition of Sticklebacks

Stickleback
Stickleback Stic"kle*back`, n. [OE. & Prov E. stickle a prickle, spine, sting (AS. sticel) + back. See Stick, v. t., and cf. Banstickle.] (Zo["o]l.) Any one of numerous species of small fishes of the genus Gasterosteus and allied genera. The back is armed with two or more sharp spines. They inhabit both salt and brackish water, and construct curious nests. Called also sticklebag, sharpling, and prickleback.

Meaning of Sticklebacks from wikipedia

- the marine species. Sticklebacks are carnivorous, feeding on small animals such as insects, crustaceans and fish larvae. Sticklebacks are characterised...
- three-spined stickleback departs from the usual pattern of parental care. Unlike other sticklebacks that nest on the substrate, Nova Scotian male sticklebacks build...
- eu, meaning "well" and calia, meaning "nested", and allusion to the sticklebacks' building of nests. The specific name inconstans means "variable" and...
- Gasterosteoidei is a suborder of ray-finned fishes that includes the sticklebacks and relatives, the 5th edition of Fishes of the World classifies this...
- ninespine sticklebacks (Teleostei, Gasterosteidae). Cybium, 24(2): 107–122. Keivany, Y. and J.S. Nelson. 2004. Phylogenetic relationships of sticklebacks (Gasterosteidae)...
- behaviour has also been demonstrated in the shoaling behaviour of threespine sticklebacks. Other open questions of shoaling behaviour include identifying which...
- Look up stickleback in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Stickleback is a type of fish. Stickleback can also refer to: Stickleback (comics), series by...
- ninespine sticklebacks (Teleostei, Gasterosteidae)". Cybium. 24 (2): 107–122. Keivany, Y.; Nelson, J.S. (2004). "Phylogenetic relationships of sticklebacks (Gasterosteidae)...
- Stickleback is the eponymous title character of a steampunk comic series created by Ian Edginton and D'Israeli appearing in UK comics anthology 2000 AD...
- Gasterosteidae, the sticklebacks. The only species in the genus is A. quadracus, the fourspine stickleback or bloody stickleback, which lives in freshwater...