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lumpsucker

Marine bony fish so called from the frequent presence of a sucking disc formed from the united ventral fins. It is also distinguished by an absence of scales and the presence of spined plates along its side. Lumpsuckers feed mainly on small crustaceans and jellyfish.

Classification

The lumpsuckers belong to the genus Cyclopterus, family Cyclopteridae, order Scorpaeniformes, class Osteichthyes.
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This supports a rich diversity of sealife including large numbers of pink-white deeplet anemones and as well as crabs, sea urchins, lobsters and fish such as the red and blue cuckoo wrasse, lumpsucker fish, pollock, ballan wrasse, and in dark crevices, the fearsome looking but totally harmless wolf-fish.
Rob makes waves about sealife by The Journal (Newcastle, England)
This display in Tokyo's Epson Aqua Stadium is of Pacific lumpfish, or lumpsuckers, The Ping Pong ball sized fish, or Eumicrotremus pacificus, uses a sucker disc on its belly to stick-like a suction cup to the rocks on the ocean floor where it lives off the island of Hokkaido.
Explain this! by Science World
Byline: By ERYL CRUMP A LUMPSUCKER was last night getting used to life in an aquarium after narrowly escaping the nets of a North Wales mussel trawler.
WALES: Lumpsucker gets lucky; 'Absurd' fish survives trawler net and ... by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
 
 
 
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