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Gasterosteiformes

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Gasterosteiformes

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Gasterosteoidei is a suborder of ray-finned fishes that includes the sticklebacks and relatives. It belongs to the order Perciformes.

Species

spiggartade fiskar

ORDER

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumChordata
  3. ClassTeleostei
  4. OrderGasterosteiformes
Habitatmarine, brackish, freshwater
Observations recorded547,862

via GBIF

Museum specimens

Specimen records
11
Collections
ROM, NMV, MAGNT, WAM, SAMA
Recorded in
United States, Norway, United Kingdom, Italy, Romania, Japan

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Encyclopedic overview

7 sections
Contents
  • Systematics
  • Families and genera
  • Characteristics
  • Distribution and habitat
  • Timeline of genera
  • References
  • External links

Gasterosteoidei is a suborder of ray-finned fishes that includes the sticklebacks and relatives. It belongs to the order Perciformes.

== Systematics == Gasterosteoidei is treated as a suborder within the order Scorpaeniformes in the 5th edition of Fishes of the World, but in other phylogenetic classifications it is treated as the infraorder Gasterosteales within the suborder Cottoidei or as a sister clade to the Zoarcales in the order Zoarciformes. Indostomidae is included within Gasterosteoidei in Fishes of the World' but according to Betancur et al. its inclusion in the clade renders it paraphyletic and they classify that family within the monotypic suborder Indostomoidei within the Synbranchiformes.

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