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.

Class: Teleosts
Order: Perches and Allies
Family: Cyclopteridae
Genus: Eumicrotremus
Maximum length: 12.7 cm
Water: Marine
Body shape: deep_bodied
Distribution: Arctic Ocean: Barents-Laptev Sea and the Beaufort Sea-Greenland. Barents Sea (except southwestern part while in the northern areas, it can be found up to Spitsbergen and Franz Josef Land); Kara Sea (reaches 80°32N); Laptev Sea (eastwards to 77°46N 131°52E; Beaufort Sea (waters of the Canadian Arctic Arch., in the Hudson Bay and Baffin Bay off the shores of the Baffin Island); eastern Greenland (northwards to the Danish Harbor). The southern boundary of the range in the North-West Atlantic is 60°N.

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