Species
Xiphister atropurpureus (Black prickleback)
Xiphister atropurpureus. Photo: (c) marlin harms, some rights reserved (CC BY)
The pricklebacks (also known as shannies) are a family, Stichaeidae, of fishes in the order Perciformes.The prickback fish can also breath oxygen.
- Humboldt Life
- Kingdom: Animalia (Animals)
- Phylum: Chordata (Chordates)
- Subphylum: Vertebrata (Vertebrates)
- Class: Actinopterygii (Ray-finned fishes)
- Order: Perciformes (Perch-like fishes)
- Suborder: Zoarcoidei
- Family: Stichaeidae (Pricklebacks)
- Subfamily: Xiphisterinae
- Genus: Xiphister
- Species: Xiphister atropurpureus (Black prickleback)
- Genus: Xiphister
- Subfamily: Xiphisterinae
- Family: Stichaeidae (Pricklebacks)
- Suborder: Zoarcoidei
- Order: Perciformes (Perch-like fishes)
- Class: Actinopterygii (Ray-finned fishes)
- Subphylum: Vertebrata (Vertebrates)
- Phylum: Chordata (Chordates)
- Kingdom: Animalia (Animals)
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