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Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Cyclopteridae

Snailfishes, Lumpsuckers

WoRMS 125590ITIS 167483GBIF 8623key worms:125590
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2026-08-05: itis_id 167483 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Bruce McAdam · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Cyclopterus lumpus

Size · not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).

Photograph of Cyclopteridae
Photo · Sara Thiebaud · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

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.W CalCOFI holds 99 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2012, as larva.R

99
observations
99
records
99
sampling events
1951–2012
years
1
datasets
larva
life stages

Observed in
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One row per dataset, one cell per year, darker with more observations — the same strip the front door draws per dataset. Each row ends with the name that dataset uses (dataset_taxon); the accepted name is written once, in the title above. A quiet pill marks a name the authority does not accept.

  • Ichthyoplankton 99 obs · 99 events · 1951–2012 · larva
    name used: Cyclopteridae Snailfishes, Lumpsuckers · code 770

Ways in
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Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Explorerdb-query
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Ichthyoplankton table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/swfsc_ichthyo.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:125590%22