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Brook Stickelback - English
URL: http://www.redpath-museum.mcgill.ca/Qbp/fish/specpages/brookstickleback.htm

The brook stickleback is a freshwater representative of the stickleback family (Gasterosteidae), a family that inhabits a range of shallow water habitats (marine, freshwater, and brackish) of the northern hemisphere. The sticklebacks are part of the order Gasterosteiformes, which includes seahorses and pipefishes. This species is small, averaging 2 inches in length and recognizable by the 5 blade-like spines protruding from the dorsal fin.

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Species Summary for Culaea inconstans - Brook stickleback - English
URL: http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/SpeciesSummary.cfm?genusname=Culaea&speciesname=

Inhabits cool, vegetated, sand or mud bottoms of lakes and ponds. Also in pools and backwaters of creeks and small rivers. Rarely found in brackish water.

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Nonindigenous Fishes - Culaea inconstans - English
URL: http://nas.er.usgs.gov/fishes/accounts/gasteros/cu_incon.html

Native Range: Atlantic and Arctic drainages from Nova Scotia to Northwest Territories; Great Lakes-Mississippi River basins south to southern Ohio and New Brunswick, and west to Manitoba and eastern British Columbia (Page and Burr 1991). Whittier collected it in the St. Johns drainage in Maine and determined it was native there.

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Brook Stickleback - English
URL: http://www.rook.org/earl/bwca/nature/fish/culaea.html

Culaea inconstans, Brook Stickleback. A part of the Swanson party BWCA pages.

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