Animalia > Chordata > Gasterosteiformes > Gasterosteidae > Apeltes > Apeltes quadracus

Apeltes quadracus (Thorny back; Thornback; Spawnytickle; Spawnykettle; Spawn; Sparnytickle; Sparny; Sparnicle; Spantickle; Spannytickle; Spanny; Spannistickle; Spanicle; Prickly back; Prickly; Prickley; Four-spined stickleback; Fourspine stickleback; Doctor; Branstickle; Branchy; Barnytickle; Barnystickle; Barnstickle)

Synonyms: Gasterosteus millepunctatus; Gasterosteus quadracus; Gasterosteus quadratus
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Wikipedia Abstract

Apeltes quadracus, the Fourspine stickleback or Bloody stickleback is a species of stickleback belonging to the order Gasterosteiformes which lives in freshwater, brackish and benthopelagic environments of the northwestern Atlantic Ocean between Newfoundland and South Carolina.
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Attributes

Adult Length [1]  2.756 inches (7 cm)
Litter Size [1]  60
Maximum Longevity [1]  3 years
Diet [2]  Planktivore, Carnivore (Invertebrates)
Female Maturity [1]  1 year

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Laurentian Great Lakes Canada, United States Nearctic Large Lakes    

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♦ 1Frimpong, E.A., and P. L. Angermeier. 2009. FishTraits: a database of ecological and life-history traits of freshwater fishes of the United States. Fisheries 34:487-495.
♦ 2Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 3Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 4Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0