#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
supertype: #spiny-finned_fish__acanthopterygian a teleost fish with fins that are supported by sharp inflexible rays
subtype: #three-spined_stickleback #ten-spined_stickleback
member of: #family_Gasterosteidae__Gasterosteidae sticklebacks
member of: #order_Solenichthyes__Solenichthyes bellows fishes; shrimpfishes; cornetfishes; pipefishes; small order of chiefly tropical marine fishes of varied and bizarre form all having a small mouth at the end of a drawn-out tubular snout
member of: #subclass_Teleostei__Teleostei large diverse group of bony fishes; includes most living species
member of: #class_Osteichthyes__Osteichthyes a class of fish having a skeleton composed of bone in addition to cartilage
member of: #subphylum_Vertebrata__Vertebrata__Craniata__subphylum_Craniata fishes; amphibians; reptiles; birds; mammals
member of: #phylum_Chordata__Chordata comprises true vertebrates and animals having a notochord
member of: #kingdom_Animalia__Animalia__animal_kingdom taxonomic kingdom comprising all living or extinct animals
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