stickleback's Usage Examples:

"It is now known to consist of the young fry of herrings and sprats in varying proportions mixed with a few shrimps, gobies, sticklebacks, pope-fishes and young flounders: but these impurities are as far as possible picked out from the whitebait before it is marketed.

Its prey could have been 3-spined sticklebacks, which are commonly seen in the shallows from the vantage point of the bridge.

sticklebacks used to make their nest among it in the spring.

Three-spined sticklebacks are small bony fishes that live in a wide variety of aquatic habitats.

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.

These include the giant stickleback, the speckled dace, the white sturgeon and the green sturgeon.

8, D) capable of living freely in water for at least a week (Bothriocephalus), which then, if eaten by a stickleback, throws off its ciliated envelope, and creeps by the aid of the hooks through the intestinal wall into the body-cavity of the fish.

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.

A small stickleback kept in an aquarium devoured, in five hours' time, 74 newly-hatched dace, which were about a quarter of an inch long.

Of the species known not one has so wide a geographical range, and has so well been studied, as the common British threespined stickleback (Gastrosteus aculeatus).

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.

Children use this section of the river to play - building bridges across the river and catching sticklebacks.

The ten-spined stickleback (Gastrosteus pungitius) is so called from the number of spines usually composing its first dorsal fin, which, however, may be sometimes reduced to eight or nine or increased to eleven.

Synonyms:

prickleback, ten-spined stickleback, Gasterosteidae, acanthopterygian, family Gasterosteidae, three-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus pungitius, spiny-finned fish, Gasterosteus aculeatus,

Antonyms:

soft-finned fish,