Gasterosteus Linnaeus [C.] 1758:295 Masc. Gasterosteus aculeatus Linnaeus 1758. Type by subsequent designation. Type designated by Jordan & Gilbert 1883:393 [ref. 2476]. On Official List (Opinion 77, Direction 56). Misspellings include Gasterosterus and Gastrosteus. Name spelled Gasterostius by Nau 1787:108 [ref. 18473], and Garterosteus by Griffith & Smith 1834:189 [ref. 1908] in synonymy. •Valid as Gasterosteus Linnaeus 1758 -- (Monod 1973:280 [ref. 7193], Ida in Masuda et al. 1984:83 [ref. 6441], Arnoult 1986:280 [ref. 6213], Banister in Whitehead et al. 1986:640 [ref. 13676], Jenkins & Burkhead 1994:623 [ref. 21581], Reshetnikov & Savvaitove 1998:111 [ref. 23593], Houston 2001:152 [ref. 25428], McLennan & Mattern 2001:11 [ref. 25222], Mecklenburg et al. 2002:332 [ref. 25968], Bogutskaya & Naseka 2004:180 [ref. 28183], Keivany & Nelson 2006:S84 [ref. 28978], Scharpf 2007:34 [ref. 30398], Kottelat & Freyhof 2007:490 [ref. 29996], Kuiter 2009:322 [ref. 30404], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:36 [ref. 36649], Mecklenburg et al. 2011:121 [ref. 31212], Higuichi et al. 2014:1 [ref. 33316], Parin et al. 2014:203 [ref. 33547], Denys et al. 2015:37 [ref. 35420], Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. 2015:895 [ref. 34062], Pietsch & Orr 2015:29 [ref. 34694], Zhang et al. 2016:192 [ref. 34477], Dyldin & Orlov 2017:56 [ref. 35138], Esmaeili et al. 2017:95 [ref. 35254], Esmaeili et al. 2018:77 [ref. 36089]). Current status: Valid as Gasterosteus Linnaeus 1758. Gasterosteidae.