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Cyclopsis

Cyclopsis is a monospecific genus of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Cyclopteridae, the lumpfishes or lumpsuckers. Its only species is Cyclopsis tentacularis which is found at depths between 12 and 140 m in the Sea of Okhotsk in the northwestern Pacific Ocean. This species has a maximum published standard length of 7.1 cm (2.8 in).

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Cyclopsis
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Suborder: Cottoidei
Family: Cyclopteridae
Genus: Cyclopsis
Popov, 1930
Species:
C. tentacularis
Binomial name
Cyclopsis tentacularis
Popov, 1930

Cyclopsis is a monospecific genus of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Cyclopteridae, the lumpfishes or lumpsuckers. Its only species is Cyclopsis tentacularis which is found at depths between 12 and 140 m (39 and 459 ft) in the Sea of Okhotsk in the northwestern Pacific Ocean. This species has a maximum published standard length of 7.1 cm (2.8 in).1

Cyclopsis was first proposed as a genus in 1930 by the Russian ichthyologist Alexander Mikhailovich Popov when he formally described Cyclopsis tentacularis.2

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References

  1. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Cyclopsis tentacularis". FishBase. February 2023 version.
  2. Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Cyclopteridae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 15 March 2023.