Notes and Letters on the Natural History of Norfolk

Note 75 — NOTES ON CERTAIN FISHES AND MARINE ANIMALS FOUND IN NORFOLK.

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The smallest of the genus Gasterosteus, or Stanstickles, is G. pungitius, the ten-spined Stickleback, but this fish is two inches long when full grown. All the species seem to be more or less indifferent to the salinity of the water. The fifteen-spined Stickleback, G. spinachia, is also sometimes taken by the shrimpers, and is the most truly marine species, but is by no means "the smallest fish of the sea."

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