Cyclopteropsis

Cyclopteropsis is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Cyclopteridae, the lumpfishes or lumpsuckers. These small lumpfishes are found in the North Pacific and Arctic Oceans.

Cyclopteropsis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Perciformes
Suborder:	Cottoidei
Family:	Cyclopteridae
Genus:	Cyclopteropsis Soldatov & Popov, 1929
Type species
Cyclopteropsis bergi Popov, 1929[1]
Synonyms[1]
Cyclopterocottus Popov, 1930 Georgimarinus Voskoboinikova & Nazarkin, 2015

Taxonomy

Cyclopteropsis was first proposed as a genus in 1929 by the Russian ichthyologists Vladimir Konstantinovich Soldatov and Alexander Mikhailovich Popov designating Cyclopteropsis bergi as the type species.^[1] FishBase still recognises this genus as valid,^[2] but Catalog of Fishes treats it as a synonym of Eumicrotremus.^[1]

Species

There are currently seven recognized species in this genus:^[2]

• Cyclopteropsis bergi Popov, 1929
• Cyclopteropsis brashnikowi (P. J. Schmidt, 1904)
• Cyclopteropsis inarmatus Mednikov (ru) & Prokhorov, 1956 (Bumpy lumpsucker)
• Cyclopteropsis jordani Soldatov, 1929 (Smooth lumpfish)
• Cyclopteropsis lindbergi Soldatov, 1930
• Cyclopteropsis mcalpini (Fowler, 1914) (Arctic lumpsucker)
• Cyclopteropsis popovi Soldatov, 1929