Musashi ninespine stickleback | |
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Conservation status | |
Critically Endangered (MoE) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Perciformes |
Family: | Gasterosteidae |
Genus: | Pungitius |
Species: | P. sp. |
Binomial name | |
Pungitius sp. |
The Musashi ninespine stickleback (Pungitius sp.) is an undescribed species of fish in the stickleback genus Pungitius. Endemic to Japan, it occurs only in the Motoara River [ja] in Kumagaya, Saitama Prefecture (old Musashi Province). It is the prefectural fish [ja], its habitat has been designated a prefectural natural monument, and a main belt asteroid, the minor planet 10776 Musashitomiyo, has been named in its honour. It is assessed as Critically Endangered on the 2020 Ministry of the Environment Red List.
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- ^ レッドリスト2020 魚類 [2020 Red List: Birds] (in Japanese). Ministry of the Environment. 27 March 2020. Retrieved 10 July 2020.
- ^ Ministry of the Environment, ed. (2015). レッドデータブック2014 —日本の絶滅のおそれのある野生生物— 4 汽水・淡水魚類 [Red Data Book 2014 – Threatened Wildlife of Japan] (in Japanese). Vol. 4. Pisces—Brackish and Fresh Water Fishes. Gyōsei Corporation. pp. 64–65. ISBN 978-4-324-09898-1.
- 県の魚・ムサシトミヨ [The Prefectural Fish: Musashi-tomoyo] (in Japanese). Saitama Prefecture. Retrieved 10 July 2022.
- 県 天然記念物 [Prefectural Natural Monuments] (in Japanese). Saitama Prefecture. Retrieved 10 July 2022.
- "10776 Musashitomiyo (1991 CP1)". NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 10 July 2022.