Pricklebacks (Stichaeidae)

The Pricklebacks (Stichaeidae) family has 39 species in the Guppies.za.net fish encyclopedia, 4 of which are kept in home aquariums.

Species in this family

• Decorated warbonnetChirolophis decoratus
• Monkeyface pricklebackCebidichthys violaceus
• Mosshead warbonnetChirolophis nugator
• Slender cockscombAnoplarchus insignis
• Arctic shannyStichaeus punctatus punctatus
• Bearded warbonnetChirolophis snyderi
• Black pricklebackXiphister atropurpureus
• Bluebarred pricklebackPlectobranchus evides
• Crisscross pricklebackPlagiogrammus hopkinsii
• Daubed shannyLeptoclinus maculatus
• Fourline snakeblennyEumesogrammus praecisus
• High cockscombAnoplarchus purpurescens
• Lesser pricklebackAlectridium aurantiacum
• Longsnout pricklebackLumpenella longirostris
• Masked pricklebackErnogrammus walkeri
• Matcheek warbonnetChirolophis tarsodes
• Neck banded blennyLeptostichaeus pumilus
• Nutcracker pricklebackBryozoichthys lysimus
• Ocellated blennyOpisthocentrus ocellatus
• Pearly pricklebackBryozoichthys marjorius
• Pighead pricklebackAcantholumpenus mackayi
• Radiated shannyUlvaria subbifurcata
• Ribbon pricklebackPhytichthys chirus
• Rock pricklebackXiphister mucosus
• Saddled pricklebackLumpenopsis clitella
• Seven-lined pricklebackErnogrammus zhirmunskii
• Six-lined pricklebackErnogrammus hexagrammus
• Six-spot pricklebackKasatkia seigeli
• Slender eelblennyLumpenus fabricii
• Snake pricklebackLumpenus sagitta
• SnakeblennyLumpenus lampretaeformis
• Stone cockscombAlectrias alectrolophus
• Stout eelblennyAnisarchus medius
• Threeline pricklebackEsselenichthys carli
• Trident pricklebackGymnoclinus cristulatus
• Twoline pricklebackEsselenichthys laurae
• Whitebarred pricklebackPoroclinus rothrocki
• Y-pricklebackLumpenopsis hypochroma
• Yarrell's blennyChirolophis ascanii