''Cyclopteropsis'' is a

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial n ...

of small

lumpfish The Cyclopteridae are a family of marine fishes, commonly known as lumpsuckers or lumpfish, in the order Scorpaeniformes. They are found in the cold waters of the Arctic, North Atlantic, and North Pacific oceans. The greatest number of species ar ...

es native to the

North Pacific The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the continen ...

and

Arctic Ocean The Arctic Ocean is the smallest and shallowest of the world's five major oceans. It spans an area of approximately and is known as the coldest of all the oceans. The International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) recognizes it as an ocean, ...

Species

There are currently seven recognized species in this genus: * ''

Cyclopteropsis bergi ''Cyclopteropsis bergi'' is a species of lumpfish native to the Northwest Pacific, where it is found at depths of 20 to 200 m (66 to 656 ft). This species reaches 7 cm (2.1 in) in total length and occurs in the Bering Sea, the Sea of Okhotsk, an ...

'' Popov, 1929 * ''

Cyclopteropsis brashnikowi ''Cyclopteropsis brashnikowi'' is a species of lumpfish native to the Sea of Okhotsk and the Northwest Pacific off of the Kuril Islands, where it is found at a depth of 30 to 303 m (98 to 994 ft). Adult individuals of the species have been noted ...

'' ( P. J. Schmidt, 1904) * ''

Cyclopteropsis inarmatus ''Cyclopteropsis inarmatus'', also known as the bumpy lumpsucker, is a species of lumpfish native to the North Pacific, where it occurs in the Bering Sea and the Sea of Okhotsk. In the Bering Sea, it can be found between Cape Navarin and Cape Oly ...

'' Mednikov ( ru) & Prokhorov, 1956 (Bumpy lumpsucker) * ''

Cyclopteropsis jordani ''Cyclopteropsis jordani'', also known as the smooth lumpfish (although that name may lead to confusion with '' Aptocyclus ventricosus''), is a species of lumpfish native to the Arctic and Northwest Atlantic, where it is known from the Kara Sea i ...

'' Soldatov, 1929 (Smooth lumpfish) * ''

Cyclopteropsis lindbergi ''Cyclopteropsis lindbergi'' is a species of lumpfish native to the Bering Sea, the Sea of Okhotsk, and the Sea of Japan The Sea of Japan is the marginal sea between the Japanese archipelago, Sakhalin, the Korean Peninsula, and the mainland ...

'' Soldatov, 1930 * ''

Cyclopteropsis mcalpini ''Cyclopteropsis mcalpini'', also known as the Arctic lumpsucker, is a species of lumpfish known only from the Arctic Ocean. It has been found in the Barents Sea and off the coast of northwestern Greenland Greenland ( kl, Kalaallit Nunaat, ...

'' ( Fowler, 1914) (Arctic lumpsucker) * ''

Cyclopteropsis popovi ''Cyclopteropsis popovi'' is a species of lumpfish native to the Northwest Pacific. It can be found from the Sea of Okhotsk to the Pacific coasts of the northern Kuril Islands The Kuril Islands or Kurile Islands (; rus, Кури́льски ...

'' Soldatov, 1929

References

Cyclopteridae Taxa named by Vladimir Soldatov Taxa described in 1929 {{Scorpaeniformes-stub