Animalia > Chordata > Gasterosteiformes > Gasterosteidae > Culaea > Culaea inconstansCulaea inconstans (Variable stickleback; Six-spined stickleback; Pinfish; Five-spined stickleback; Common stickleback; Common freshwater stickleback; Brook stickleback)Synonyms: Eucalia inconstans; Eucalia inconstans pygmaea; Eucalia pygmaea; Gasterosteus gymnetes; Gasterosteus inconstans (homotypic); Gasterosteus pygmaeus Language: Danish; Finnish; French; German; Mandarin Chinese; Swedish The brook stickleback (Culaea inconstans) is a small freshwater fish that is distributed across the US and Canada. It grows to a length of about 2 inches. It occupies the northern part of the eastern United States, as well as the southern half of Canada. Small populations are scattered throughout the Mississippi-Great Lakes basin extending to Colorado, New Mexico, Kentucky, Tennessee, etc., though some of these areas are not native to the species. This small fish inhabits clear, cool streams and lakes. They eat small invertebrates, algae, insect larvae, and occasionally their own eggs. They are also preyed upon by smallmouth bass and northern pike. Feeding time is usually dawn and sunset. The brook stickleback does have active competition mostly from minnows, but feeding times are differen |
Adult Length [1] | 3.543 inches (9 cm) | Brood Dispersal [1] | In a nest | Brood Egg Substrate [1] | Ariadnophils | Brood Guarder [1] | Yes | Litter Size [1] | 250 | Maximum Longevity [1] | 2 years | | Diet [2] | Planktivore, Carnivore (Invertebrates) | | Female Maturity [1] | 1 year |
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Name |
IUCN Category |
Area acres |
Location |
Species |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
Algonquin Provincial Park |
IV |
1868802 |
Ontario, Canada |
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Audubon National Wildlife Refuge |
IV |
14642 |
North Dakota, United States |
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Banff National Park |
II |
1690912 |
Alberta, Canada |
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Bruce Peninsula National Park |
II |
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Ontario, Canada |
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Champlain-Adirondack Biosphere Reserve |
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9859505 |
New York, Vermont, United States |
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Elk Island National Park |
II |
47171 |
Alberta, Canada |
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Fathom Five National Marine Park |
II |
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Ontario, Canada |
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Grasslands National Park |
II |
128635 |
Saskatchewan, Canada |
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Greenwater Provincial Park |
II |
11019 |
Ontario, Canada |
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Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore |
II |
8272 |
Indiana, United States |
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Isle Royale Biosphere Reserve |
Ib |
571799 |
Michigan, United States |
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Jasper National Park |
II |
2776809 |
Alberta, Canada |
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Kouchibouguac National Park |
II |
59161 |
New Brunswick, Canada |
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La Mauricie National Park |
II |
131706 |
Quebec, Canada |
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Niagara Escarpment Biosphere Reserve |
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470167 |
Ontario, Canada |
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Oak Ridge National Environmental Research Park |
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20001 |
Tennessee, United States |
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Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore |
II |
67888 |
Michigan, United States |
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Pipestone National Monument |
V |
326 |
Minnesota, United States |
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Prince Albert National Park |
II |
976762 |
Saskatchewan, Canada |
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Pukaskwa National Park |
II |
459860 |
Ontario, Canada |
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Redberry Lake Biosphere Reserve |
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277252 |
Saskatchewan, Canada |
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Riding Mountain Biosphere Reserve |
II |
762028 |
Manitoba, Canada |
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Saint Croix International Historic Site |
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Maine, United States |
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Saint Lawrence Islands National Park |
II |
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Ontario, Canada |
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Southern Appalachian Biosphere Reserve |
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37548505 |
North Carolina, Tennessee, United States |
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Voyageurs National Park |
II |
177960 |
Minnesota, United States |
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Wapusk National Park |
II |
2614324 |
Manitoba, Canada |
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Wood Buffalo National Park |
II |
11038545 |
Alberta, Canada |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 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 |
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
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