Canadian Register of Marine Species - Culaea inconstans (Kirtland, 1840)

CaRMS taxon details

Culaea inconstans (Kirtland, 1840)

AphiaID

567530 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:567530)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Culaea Whitley, 1950

Original name

Gasterosteus inconstans Kirtland, 1840

Environment

~~marine~~, ~~brackish~~, fresh, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

(of ) Kirtland, J. P. (1840). Descriptions of four new species of fishes. Boston Journal of Natural History. v. 3 (nos 1-2) (art. 3): 273-277, Pl. 2. [(For Jan. 1840).]. [details]

Taxonomic citation

Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2021). FishBase. Culaea inconstans (Kirtland, 1840). Accessed through: Kennedy, M.K., L. Van Guelpen, G. Pohle, L. Bajona (Eds.) (2021) Canadian Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/carms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=567530 on 2026-09-07

Regional species database citation

Nozères, C., Kennedy, M.K. (Eds.) (2026). Canadian Register of Marine Species. Culaea inconstans (Kirtland, 1840). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Carms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=567530 on 2026-09-07

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2011-04-05 08:23:11Z

created

Bailly, Nicolas

[taxonomic tree] [clear cache]

original description (of ) Kirtland, J. P. (1840). Descriptions of four new species of fishes. Boston Journal of Natural History. v. 3 (nos 1-2) (art. 3): 273-277, Pl. 2. [(For Jan. 1840).]. [details]

basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]

ecology source Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. Scientific Data. 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

Language	Name
English	brook stickleback	[details]
French	épinoche à cinq épines	[details]

To Barcode of Life (220 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (35 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Culaea inconstans)
To FishSounds
To GenBank (294 nucleotides; 244 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Creagrutus occidaneus P18911 print)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Culaea inconstans RAD103722-001)
To ITIS

Unreviewed

To NMNH Extant Collection (Creagrutus occidaneus P18911 print)

Hosted externally

To NMNH Extant Collection (Culaea inconstans RAD103722-001)

Hosted externally