spinachia, Gasterosteus Linnaeus [C.] 1758:296 [Systema Naturae, Ed. X v. 1; ref. 2787] Southern Europe. Syntypes: NRM 46 (1). Type catalog: Fernholm & Wheeler 1983:231-232 [ref. 20707]. Species epithet misspelled spinochia by Cuvier 1831:125 [ref. 30376]. •Valid as Spinachia spinachia (Linnaeus 1758) -- (Monod 1973:286 [ref. 7193], Banister in Whitehead et al. 1986:643 [ref. 13676], Fricke 2007:28 [ref. 30577], Kuiter 2009:322 [ref. 30404], Parin et al. 2014:206 [ref. 33547], Carneiro et al. 2019:297 [ref. 37250], Bañón & Maño 2021:65 [ref. 38883]). Current status: Valid as Spinachia spinachia (Linnaeus 1758). Gasterosteidae. Distribution: Baltic Sea; North Sea; northeastern Atlantic: Norway south to Portugal. Habitat: brackish, marine.