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The report describes tsunami and backwash transport bringing the marine and freshwater sticklebacks together, producing interspecific hybridization. DIRECT_TEXT

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Source: Japan's 2011 tsunami sparked fish hybridization, but species boundaries largely held · locator {} · excerpt hash sha256:b7cc2d8786fee22833a4778840943edc5e4e84261f5503907ed06c283d715d0d

A hybrid population of threespine stickleback and Japan Sea stickleback discovered in this pond ... the marine Japan Sea stickleback was carried into the freshwater pond by the tsunami, while the freshwater threespine stickleback was carried from upstream by the backwash. The two species came into contact, resulting in interspecific hybridization.