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Eumicrotremus

Eumicrotremus is a genus of lumpfishes native to the northern oceans. The name for this genus comes from the Greek roots eu meaning "good", mikros meaning "small" or "little", and trema meaning "hole".

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Length
506 w
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Eumicrotremus
Eumicrotremus orbis
Eumicrotremus pacificus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Suborder: Cottoidei
Family: Cyclopteridae
Genus: Eumicrotremus
T. N. Gill, 1862
Type species
Cyclopterus spinosus
Genera

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Synonyms1
  • Cyclolumpus Tanaka, 1912
  • Cyclopterocottus Popov, 1930
  • Cyclopteroides Garman, 1892
  • Cyclopteropsis Soldatov & Popov, 1929
  • Georgimarinus Voskoboinikova & Nazarkin, 2015
  • Microancathus Voskoboinikova, 2015

Eumicrotremus is a genus of lumpfishes native to the northern oceans. The name for this genus comes from the Greek roots eu meaning "good", mikros meaning "small" or "little", and trema meaning "hole".2

Taxonomy

Eumicrotremus was first proposed as a genus in 1862 by the American biologist Theodore Gill with Johan Christian Fabricius's Cyclopterus spinosus as its type species.1 The 5th edition of Fishes of the World does not recognize subfamilies within the Cyclopteridae,3 however, other authorities place this genus in the subfamily Eumicrotreminae.1

Species

There are currently 18 recognized species in this genus:245

  • Eumicrotremus multituberculatus Voskoboinikova 2018
  • Eumicrotremus ochotonensis Popov 1928
References

References

  1. Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Cyclopteridae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 16 March 2023.
  2. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2023). "Species in genus Eumicrotremus?month=February". FishBase.
  3. J. S. Nelson; T. C. Grande; M. V. H. Wilson (2016). Fishes of the World (5th ed.). Wiley. pp. 467–495. ISBN 978-1-118-34233-6. Archived from the original on 2019-04-08. Retrieved 2023-03-16.
  4. Kim, Jinkoo (June 2017). "Taxonomic review of dwarf species of Eumicrotremus (Actinopterygii: Cottoidei: Cyclopteridae) with descriptions of two new species from the western North Pacific". Zootaxa – via ResearchGate.
  5. Voskoboinikova, O.S.; Orlov, A.M. (December 2020). "Proeumicrotremus gen. nov.—a New Genus for Eumicrotremus soldatovi (Cyclopteridae)". Journal of Ichthyology. 60 (6): 943–946. Bibcode:2020JIch...60..943V. doi:10.1134/S0032945220060119 – via ResearchGate.
  6. Voskoboinikova, O.S. & Nazarkin, M.V. (2015): Redescription of Andriashev’s spiny pimpled lumpsucker Eumicrotremus andriashevi and designation of a new subspecies E. andriashevi aculeatus ssp. n. (Cyclopteridae). Journal of Ichthyology, 55 (2): 155-161.