Eumicrotremus

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Eumicrotremus

Genus of fishes

Eumicrotremus is a genus of lumpfishes native to the northern oceans. The name for this genus comes from the Greek roots eu meaning "good", mikros meaning "small" or "little", and trema meaning "hole".[2]

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Taxonomy

Eumicrotremus was first proposed as a genus in 1862 by the American biologist Theodore Gill with Fabricius’s Cyclopterus spinosus as its type species.[1] The 5th edition of Fishes of the World does not recognize subfamilies within the Cyclopteridae,[3] however, other authorities place this genus in the subfamily Eumicrotreminae.[1]

Species

There are currently 18 recognized species in this genus:[2][4][5]

References

  1. [1]
    Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Cyclopteridae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 16 March 2023.
  2. [2]
    Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2023). Species of Eumicrotremus?month=February in FishBase. April 2023 version.
  3. [3]
    J. S. Nelson; T. C. Grande; M. V. H. Wilson (2016). Fishes of the World (5th ed.). Wiley. pp. 467–495. ISBN 978-1-118-34233-6. Archived from the original on 2019-04-08. Retrieved 2023-03-16.
  4. [4]
    Kim, Jinkoo (June 2017). "Taxonomic review of dwarf species of Eumicrotremus (Actinopterygii: Cottoidei: Cyclopteridae) with descriptions of two new species from the western North Pacific". Zootaxa – via ResearchGate.
  5. [5]
    Voskoboinikova, O.S.; Orlov, A.M. (December 2020). "Proeumicrotremus gen. nov.—a New Genus for Eumicrotremus soldatovi (Cyclopteridae)". Journal of Ichthyology. 60 – via ResearchGate.
  6. [6]
    Voskoboinikova, O.S. & Nazarkin, M.V. (2015): Redescription of Andriashev’s spiny pimpled lumpsucker Eumicrotremus andriashevi and designation of a new subspecies E. andriashevi aculeatus ssp. n. (Cyclopteridae). Journal of Ichthyology, 55 (2): 155-161.


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