lumpsucker
Cyclopterus lumpus
Category: Reef Fish
IUCN Conservation Status: NT - Near Threatened - close to qualifying for a threatened category in the near future
Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Teleostei
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Cyclopteridae
- Genus
- Cyclopterus
Where to Find
Found in 15 diving areas across 6 countries and 2 regions.
- Bornholm, Denmark - 371 records
- North Sea Coast, Denmark - 193 records
- South Coast, Ireland - 12 records
- West Coast, Ireland - 5 records
- Lofoten Islands, Norway - 8 records
- Baltic Coast, Sweden - 58 records
- West Coast (Gothenburg), Sweden - 1137 records
- Cornwall & Devon, United Kingdom - 17 records
- Northumberland & Northeast, United Kingdom - 93 records
- Scapa Flow, Orkney, United Kingdom - 152 records
- Scottish East Coast & Borders, United Kingdom - 83 records
- Scottish West Coast, United Kingdom - 16 records
- New Brunswick & Bay of Fundy, Canada - 151 records
- Newfoundland, Canada - 281 records
- Nova Scotia, Canada - 103 records