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Apeltes quadracus (Mitchill, 1815)

Description

Common Names

  • Firepigget hundestejle , Danish , Denmark
  • Barnstickle , English , Canada
  • Barnystickle , English , Canada
  • Barnytickle , English , Canada
  • Branchy , English , Canada
  • Branstickle , English , Canada
  • Doctor , English , Canada
  • Four-spined stickleback , English , UK
  • Fourspine stickleback , English , Global
  • Fourspine stickleback , English , USA
  • Prickley , English , Canada
  • Prickly , English , Canada
  • Prickly back , English , Canada
  • Spanicle , English , Canada
  • Spannistickle , English , Canada
  • Spanny , English , Canada
  • Spannytickle , English , Canada
  • Spantickle , English , Canada
  • Sparnicle , English , Canada
  • Sparny , English , Canada
  • Sparnytickle , English , Canada
  • Spawn , English , Canada
  • Spawnykettle , English , Canada
  • Spawnytickle , English , Canada
  • Thornback , English , Canada
  • Thorny back , English , Canada
  • Nelikogalik , Estonian , Estonia
  • Épinoche à quatre épines , French , Canada
  • Épinoche à quatre épines , French , France
  • Amerikanischer Stichling , German , Germany
  • Vierstachliger Stichling , German , Germany
  • Czterokolec , Polish , Poland
  • Chetyrekhiglaya kolyushka , Russian , Russia
  • колюшка четырехиглая , Russian , Russia

    • Taxonomic Hierarchy

    Kingdom: Animalia

    Phylum: Chordata

    Class: Teleostei

    Order: Perciformes/Gasterosteoidei

    Family: Gasterosteidae

    Genus: Apeltes

    Species: Apeltes quadracus (Mitchill, 1815)

    Climate Zone

  • Temperate

    • Location

  • Western Atlantic: Gulf of St. Lawrence in Canada to North Carolina, USA. Mainly a near-shore marine species, but far inland populations occur in lakes in Nova Scotia in Canada and in Hudson, Delaware and Susquehanna River drainages (Ref. 5723).

    • Biology

    Adults occur mainly along weedy bays and backwaters, entering brackish water and to a limited extent, fresh water (Ref. 3814). Feed along the bottom, primarily on diatoms, worms and crustaceans by sucking in the prey with a pipetting action (Ref. 27549). Males build, guard and aerate the nest where the eggs are deposited (Ref. 205).

    Habitat

    freshwater