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Gasterosteus aculeatus

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Noun1.Gasterosteus aculeatus - of rivers and coastal regionsGasterosteus aculeatus - of rivers and coastal regions        
stickleback, prickleback - small (2-4 inches) pugnacious mostly scaleless spiny-backed fishes of northern fresh and littoral waters having elaborate courtship; subjects of much research
Gasterosteus, genus gasterosteus - type genus of the family Gasterosteidae


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Behavioural Effects of Environmental Pollution in Threespine Stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus L [PhD thesis].
Males of Gasterosteus aculeatus typically turn red on their bellies and blue-green on top when breeding--unless they live in Washington's Chehalis River watershed.
 
 
 
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