Icelandic Threespine Stickleback
Gasterosteus islandicus
- Least concern
- Card rarity: Common
- Fish
The Icelandic threespine stickleback is a freshwater fish, and one of the few vertebrate species endemic to Iceland. In some literature it is considered as a subspecies of G. aculeatus, though several authorities offer it full species status. It was first described by French biologist Henri Émile Sauvage in 1874.
Classification
- Class
- Actinopterygii
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Gasterosteidae
- Genus
- Gasterosteus