Pungitius d'Annone [J. J.] 1760:302 Masc. Gasterosteus pungitius Linnaeus 1758. Type by monotypy. Based on 'De ... Pungitio ...' of Jonston 1649:158 [ref. 30579]. Also appeared as new as Pungitius Coste 1848:588 [ref. 5556], without named species; subsequent addition of species for this taxon not researched; type above as given by Jordan 1923:174 [ref. 2421]; type may involve P. laevis (see footnote in Monod 1973:283 [ref. 7193]). •Valid as Pungitius Coste 1848 -- (Monod 1973:283 [ref. 7193], Takata et al. 1984 [ref. 6727], Ida in Masuda et al. 1984:83 [ref. 6441], Banister in Whitehead et al. 1986:641 [ref. 13676], Bogutskaya & Naseka 1996:56 [ref. 22798], Reshetnikov & Savvaitove 1998:111 [ref. 23593], Keivany & Nelson 2000:107 [ref. 24720], McLennan & Mattern 2001:11 [ref. 25222], Mecklenburg et al. 2002:332 [ref. 25968], Kolpakov 2003:847 [ref. 27537], Bogutskaya & Naseka 2004:181 [ref. 28183], Keivany & Nelson 2006:S84 [ref. 28978], Shedko et al. 2005:223 [ref. 29561], Scharpf 2007:35 [ref. 30398], Kottelat & Freyhof 2007:490 [ref. 29996], Mecklenburg et al. 2011:121 [ref. 31212], Parin et al. 2014:204 [ref. 33547], Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. 2015:895 [ref. 34062], Takahashi et al. 2016:44 [ref. 34337], Zhang et al. 2016:192 [ref. 34477], Dyldin & Orlov 2017:57 [ref. 35138], Esmaeili et al. 2017:95 [ref. 35254], Denys et al. 2017:13 [ref. 35585], Esmaeili et al. 2018:77 [ref. 36089]). •Valid as Pungitius d'Annone 1760 -- (Matsumoto et al. 2021:1 [ref. 38508], Wang et al. 2021:[3] [ref. 38800]). Current status: Valid as Pungitius d'Annone 1760. Gasterosteidae.