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Derjugin's lumpsucker (Eumicrotremus derjugini)
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Ecological Illustration of Derjugin's lumpsucker (Eumicrotremus derjugini)
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Cyclopteridae

Derjugin's lumpsucker

Eumicrotremus derjugini

Twelve Point Seven Centimeters Cyclopterid Fish of the Atlantic Ocean

  • Polar
  • Circumpolar Arctic
  • Regional distribution
  • Marine fish
  • Arctic Ocean
  • Atlantic Ocean
  • North America
  • Polar regions
  • Deep-bodied
  • Small
  • Cold-water fish

Eumicrotremus derjugini, also known as the leatherfin lumpsucker or petite poule de mer Arctique (meaning "small Arctic sea hen" in French), is a species of lumpfish native to the Arctic, the North Atlantic, and the North Pacific. It is known from Labrador, Ungava Bay, Hudson Bay, the Canadian Arctic, Svalbard, the Barents Sea, Franz Josef Land, Greenland, the Kara Sea, the Laptev Sea, the East Siberian Sea, the Chukchi Sea, and the Sea of Okhotsk. It occurs at a depth range of 5 to 1038 m (16 to 3406 ft), and it reaches 10 cm (3.9 inches) SL. It is a benthic species often found on substrates of mud, gravel, or stone at temperatures below 0 °C, feeding mainly on crustaceans and Oikopleura.

Water type
Marine
Body shape
deep_bodied
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