Nine-spined Stickleback
Pungitius pungitius
Category: Reef Fish
IUCN Conservation Status: LC - Least Concern - species is widespread and abundant, not currently at risk of extinction
Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Teleostei
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Gasterosteidae
- Genus
- Pungitius
Where to Find
Found in 11 diving areas across 6 countries and 2 regions.
- North Sea Coast, Denmark - 20 records
- South Coast, Ireland - 2 records
- Baltic Coast, Sweden - 25 records
- West Coast (Gothenburg), Sweden - 2 records
- Cornwall & Devon, United Kingdom - 8 records
- Manitoba & Prairie Lakes, Canada - 898 records
- New Brunswick & Bay of Fundy, Canada - 68 records
- Newfoundland, Canada - 26 records
- Nova Scotia, Canada - 95 records
- Québec, Canada - 7 records
- Great Lakes, United States - 378 records