Eumicrotremus spinosus

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Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Habitat

Typically found in water with a depth of 0 to -5,287 meters (0 to -17,346 feet).[1]

Biome: Marine .

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Cyclopterus spinosus Fabricius • Cyclopterus spinosus Müller, 1776 • Eumicrotremus andriashevi Perminov • Eumicrotremus spinosus (Müller (ex Fabricius), 1776) • Eumicrotremus terraenovae Myers & B�hlke • Lethotremus armouri Fowler

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Comment: In Müller.

Last scrutiny: Data last modified by FishBase 31-Aug-1994

Similar Species

Members of the genus Eumicrotremus

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 14 species and subspecies in this genus:

E. andriashevi (Pimpled Lumpsucker) · E. asperrimus (Siberian Lumpsucker) · E. barbatus (Papillose Lumpsucker) · E. birulai (Siberian Lumpsucker) · E. derjugini (Leatherfin Lumpsucker) · E. eggvinii (Eggvin Lumpsucker) · E. gyrinops (Alaskan Lumpsucker?124 Names of Fishes) · E. orbis (Pacific Spiny Lumpsucker) · E. orbis andriashevi (Pimpled Lumpsucker) · E. phrynoides (Toad Lumpsucker) · E. soldatovi (Spinous Lumpfish) · E. spinosus (Atlantic Spiny Lumpsucker) · E. taranetzi (Lake Minnow) · E. terraenovae (Newfoundland Spiny Lumpsucker)

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Further Reading

• A checklist of Canadian Atlantic fishes with keys for identification / Toronto, Royal Ontario Museum, 1965 url p. 17, p. 82.
• A guide to the study of fishes, New York, H. Holt, 1905. url .
• A guide to the study of fishes, by David Starr Jordan. .. New York, H. Holt and Company, 1905. url p. 135.
• A list of common and scientific names of fishes from the United States and Canada. Report presented at the eighty-ninth annual meeting, Clearwater, Fla., Sept. 16-18, 1959. Ann Arbor, Mich., 1960. url p. 41.
• A manual of the vertebrate animals of the northern United States, including the district north and east of the Ozark mountains, south of the Laurentian hills, north of the southern boundary of Virgini by David Starr Jordan. Chicago: A.C. McClurg, 1910. url p. 154.
• An annotated catalogue of the fishes of Maine. Portland, Me., 1914. url p. 155.
• An ecological characterization of Coastal Maine (north and east of Cape Elizabeth) / Stewart I. Fefer and Patricia S. Schettig: principal investigators. Newton Corner, Mass.: Department of the Interior, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Northeast Region, 1980. url .
• Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. New York, New York Academy of Sciences. url p. 357.
• Annual record of science and industry. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1872-[1879] url p. 289.
• Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, -1965. url p. 132.
• Archiv for mathematik og naturvidenskab. Oslo [etc.]O. Norlis [etc.] url .
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. 1879 Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url p. 115, p. 175, p. 390.
• Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries. Washington, D.C.: Govt. Print. Off., 1905-1950. url p. 339, p. 558, p. 68, p. 69.
• Bulletin of the Essex Institute. Salem, Mass., Essex Institute. url p. 12, p. 32, p. 36.
• Bulletin. Salem, Mass. url p. 12, p. 32, p. 36.
• Check list of the fishes of the Dominion of Canada and Newfoundland. Ottawa, Printed by C. H. Parmelee, 1913. url , .
• Contributions to North American ichthyology. Based primarily on the collections of the United States National Museum. Washington: Govt. print. off., 1877-78. url p. 115, p. 175.
• Dean bibliography of fishes. New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1971-1973. url p. 296, p. 618.
• Fishery bulletin. United States Fish and Wildlife Service. Washington, The Service, U.S. Govt Print. Off. url , p. 572.
• Fishes of the Gulf of Maine, by Henry B. Bigelow and William C. Schroeder. Washington, United States Government Printing Office, 1953. url , p. 463, p. 572.
• Fishes of the Gulf of Maine. By Henry B. Bigelow. .. and William W. Welsh. .. Washington, Govt. Print. Off., 1925. url p. 339, p. 558.
• Fishes of the western North Atlantic. Editorial board: editor-in-chief John Tee-Van [and others] New Haven, Sears Foundation for Marine Research, Yale Univ., 1948- url p. 518, p. 616.
• Fishes of the world, by Edouard Le Danois, with the collaboration of Jacques Millot, Theodore Monod [and] Paul Budker. With 80 photogravure plates, 30 colour photos., and text illus. Woodstock, Vt., Countryman Press[1957] url p. 186.
• Jenaische Zeitschrift für Naturwissenschaft. Jena, Gustav Fischer [etc.]. url p. 256, p. 317.
• Manual of the natural history, geology, and physics of Greenland, and the neighboring regions: prepared for the use of the Arctic Expedition of 1875, under the direction of the Arctic Committee of the Royal Society, for the use of the expedition; published by authority of the Lords Commissione London: H.M. Stationery Off., printed by G.E. Eyre and W. Spottiswoode, 1875. url p. 117.
• Manual of the vertebrate animals of the northern U.S.. .. inclusive of the marine species. Chicago, McClurg, 1894, c1876-88. url .
• Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy, at Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass. 14 1892 Cambridge [Mass.]: The Museum, 1876-1940. url p. 20, contents, page 3, contents, page 3, p. 34, p. 34, p. 36, p. 36.
• Nature. London, Macmillan. url p. 422.
• Occasional papers of the Boston Society of Natural History. Boston, Boston Society of Natural History, 1869-1941. url .
• Oceanic ichthyology: a treatise on the deep-sea and pelagic fishes of the world, based chiefly upon the collections made by the steamers "Blake, " "Albatross, " and "Fishhawk" in the northwestern Atlantic, with an atlas con by George Brown Goode and Tarleton H. Bean. Pub. in connection with the National Museum and the Smithsonian institution. 22 1896 Cambridge, U.S.A.: Printed for the Museum, 1896. url p. 15*, p. 272, p. xiv, p. xx.
• Ontogeny and systematics of fishes: based on an international symposium dedicated to the memory of Elbert Halvor Ahlstrom / sponsored by the National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, United States Dept. of Commerce. [New York?]: American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, c1984. url p. 431.
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• Soft-rayed Bony fishes: class Osteichthyes, order Acipenseroidei, order Lepisostei, order Isospondyli, suborder Elopoidea, suborder Clupeoidea, suborder Salmonoidea / Henry B. Bigelow. .. [et al.]. New Haven, Conn.: Sears Foundation for Marine Research, Yale University, 1963. url p. 518, p. 616.
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Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 15, 2012.
• FishBase
• FishBase. Release date: January 5, 2010
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 02, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 10 providers.
• Ocean Biogeographic Information System. Accessed March 03, 2006. www.iobis.org
• Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.
• Woodland, David J. (from FishBase).

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 02, 2008:

• Alaska Ocean Observing System: Arctic Ocean Diversity
• Burke Museum: University of Washington Fish Collection
• Canadian Museum of Nature: Canadian Museum of Nature Fish Collection
• FishBase: FishBase DiGIR Provider - Philippine Server
• GBIF-Sweden: Fishes (NRM)
• GBIF-Sweden: Fishes of the Gothenburg Natural History Museum
• GBIF-Sweden: Zoology (Museum of Evolution - Uppsala)
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: Atlantic Reference Centre (OBIS Canada)
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: Bay of Fundy Species List (OBIS Canada)
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: Canadian Museum of Nature - Fish Collection (OBIS Canada)
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: DFO Maritimes Research Vessel Trawl Surveys Fish Observations (OBIS Canada)
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: ECNASAP - East Coast North America Strategic Assessment (OBIS Canada)
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: Taxonomic Information Sytem for the Belgian coastal area
• Museum national d'histoire naturelle: Ichtyologie
• Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University: MCZ Fish Collection
• Royal Ontario Museum: Fish specimens
• Senckenberg: Collection Pisces

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 126915
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Fis-24612
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13785781
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 167545
• Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: AFC4G13040
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 178905

Footnotes

1. Mean = -213.330 meters (-699.902 feet), Standard Deviation = 532.040 based on 1,999 observations. Ocean depth information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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