Ninespine Stickleback
Pungitius pungitius · Gasterosteidae
About this fish
- Spawning
- May, June and July
- Largest length
- up to 9 cm (4 inches)
- Lifespan
- up to 5 years
- Matures at
- about 1.5 years old
Values come from a national database of the United States, not Wisconsin surveys: maximum length is the species' largest recorded anywhere, and spawning months are range-wide (Wisconsin timing, in a colder climate, can be later).
USGS FishTraits 14.3 (CC0). Credit: Frimpong and Angermeier, U.S. Geological Survey.
13 open records of this fish in Wisconsin were used here.
Lakes where it has been recorded
From open fish survey and museum records. A record shows the fish was found near the lake in that year, not that it is there now.
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