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Atlantic spiny lumpsucker (Eumicrotremus spinosus)
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Atlantic spiny lumpsucker (Eumicrotremus spinosus) specimen
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Cyclopteridae

Atlantic spiny lumpsucker

Eumicrotremus spinosus

Thirteen Point Two Centimeters Cyclopterid Fish of the Atlantic Ocean

  • Polar
  • Circumpolar Arctic
  • Northern Hemisphere
  • Regional distribution
  • Marine fish
  • Atlantic Ocean
  • Europe
  • North America
  • Polar regions
  • Small
  • Cold-water fish

Eumicrotremus spinosus, commonly known as the Atlantic spiny lumpsucker, is a species of lumpfish native to the Arctic and North Atlantic.

Maximum length
13.2 cm
Water
Marine
Distribution
Arctic, Northwest to Northeast Atlantic: Barents Sea to Franz Josef Land, Spitzbergen, Greenland, and south along North American coast to Massachusetts (Ref. 48811 ); including Iceland and Norway (Ref. 4701 ); Canadian Arctic to Hudson Bay in Canada (Ref. 7251 ).

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