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Any one of numerous species of small fish of the family Gasterosteidae. The back is armed with two or more sharp spines. They inhabit both salt and brackish water, and construct nests from weeds.
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Examples of sticklebacks in a Sentence
The Elasmobranchs swallow infected molluscs or fish; pike and trout devour smaller fry; birds pick up sticklebacks, insects and worms which contain Cestode larvae; and man lays himself open to infection by eating the uncooked or partially prepared flesh of many animals.
The majority have a compressed well-proportioned body, which in the marine species is of a more elongate form, leading to the allied group of flute-mouths (Fistulariidae), which are, in fact, gigantic marine sticklebacks.
So far as is known at present, all sticklebacks construct a nest for the reception or the spawn, which is jealously guarded by the male until the young are hatched, which event takes place in from ten to eighteen days after oviposition.
Sticklebacks are short-lived animals; they are said to reach an age of only three or four years; yet their short life, at least that of the males, is full of excitement.
Lampreys, sticklebacks, cattoids, sturgeons - the white sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus) is commonly known as the "Oregon sturgeon" - trout and salmon are the principal anadromous fish, the salmon and trout being the most important economically.
Children use this section of the river to play - building bridges across the river and catching sticklebacks.
Three-spined sticklebacks are small bony fishes that live in a wide variety of aquatic habitats.
Its prey could have been 3-spined sticklebacks, which are commonly seen in the shallows from the vantage point of the bridge.
A number of male sticklebacks were investigated during the breeding season.
Gobies, blennies, butterfish and 3 spined sticklebacks are common in the rockpools.
The Sticklebacks used to make their nest among it in the spring.
Its prey could have been 3-spined Sticklebacks, which are commonly seen in the shallows from the vantage point of the bridge.