Lumpenus sagitta: Pacific snake prickleback–Race Rocks Taxonomy

Lumpenus sagitta, Pacific snake prickleback captured by Pigeon guillemot. Photo by Ryan Murphy

Pigeon guillemots dive up to 15 in the channel in front of the jetty metres to get their food, mainly gunnels and pricklebacks. We see them sitting like this for long periods of time before they are sure that no predators are watching them go into their nest burrows

Kingdom Animalia–
Eumetazoa–metazoans
Bilateria —bilaterally symmetrical animals

Deuterostomia– deuterostomes

Phylum Chordata– chordates
- Craniata–craniates
  - Subphylum Vertebrata– vertebrates
    - Superclass Gnathostomata– jawed vertebrates
      - Euteleostomi bony –vertebrates
        
        Class Actinopterygii ray-finned fishes
        
        Order Perciformes
        
        Family–Stichaeidae Pricklebacks
        
        Genus Lumpenus

Species Lumpenus sagitta Pacific snake prickleback

Classification based on Animal Diversity Web

This file is provided as part of a collaborative effort by the students, faculty, staff and volunteers of
Lester B. Pearson College
May 2010
Garry Fletcher

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Lumpenus sagitta: Pacific snake prickleback–Race Rocks Taxonomy