Cyclopteropsis
Genus of fishes
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Cyclopteropsis is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Cyclopteridae, the lumpfishes or lumpsuckers. These small lumpfishes are found in the North Pacific and Arctic Oceans.
| Cyclopteropsis | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Suborder: | Cottoidei |
| Family: | Cyclopteridae |
| Genus: | Cyclopteropsis Soldatov & Popov, 1929 |
| Type species | |
| Cyclopteropsis bergi Popov, 1929[1] | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Taxonomy
Cyclopteropsis was first proposed as a genus in 1929 by the Russian ichthyologists Vladimir Konstantinovich Soldatov and Alexander Mikhailovich Popov designating Cyclopteropsis bergi as the type species.[1] FishBase still recognises this genus as valid,[2] but Catalog of Fishes treats it as a synonym of Eumicrotremus.[1]
Species
There are currently seven recognized species in this genus:[2]
- Cyclopteropsis bergi Popov, 1929
- Cyclopteropsis brashnikowi (P. J. Schmidt, 1904)
- Cyclopteropsis inarmatus Mednikov (ru) & Prokhorov, 1956 (Bumpy lumpsucker)
- Cyclopteropsis jordani Soldatov, 1929 (Smooth lumpfish)
- Cyclopteropsis lindbergi Soldatov, 1930
- Cyclopteropsis mcalpini (Fowler, 1914) (Arctic lumpsucker)
- Cyclopteropsis popovi Soldatov, 1929
