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Related FAQs: Lumpfishes,
Related Articles: Mail-Cheeked Fishes (Scorpaeniforms),
Lionfish & Their Relatives,
the subfamily
Choridactylinae (Inimicinae), Family Platycephalidae, the Crocodilefishes
or Flatheads, Subfamily Synanceinae, the
Stonefishes, Subfamily Tetraroginae, Sailback Scorpionfishes
or Wasp Fishes, Family Triglidae, the
Searobins or Gurnards,
/A Diversity of Aquatic Life
The Cyclopterids, the
Aptly Named Lumpfishes
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By Bob Fenner
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Cyclopterus
lumpus
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Scorpionfishes:
Lionfishes & Much More for Marine Aquariums
Diversity, Selection & Care
New eBook on Amazon: Available
here
New Print Book on Create Space: Available
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by Robert (Bob) Fenner |
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| Cyclopterus lumpus Linnaeus 1758,
Lumpsucker. Northwestern Atlantic. To 60 cm. Males smaller, reddish
to purple in breeding color. Feeds on com jellies, medusae, small
crustaceans, Polychaetes, jelly fish and small fishes. Male and
female aquarium pix. |
 
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| Eumicrotremus orbis (Gunther 1861), the
Pacific Spiny Lumpsucker. North Pacific; Japan to Washington. To
five inches in length. At right: one at the Birch Aquarium in San
Diego, CA. USA. Below, female and male in captivity. |
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Scorpionfishes:
Lionfishes & Much More for Marine Aquariums
Diversity, Selection & Care
New eBook on Amazon: Available
here
New Print Book on Create Space: Available
here
by Robert (Bob) Fenner |
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