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Tatar lumpsucker

Eumicrotremus tartaricus Lindberg & Legeza, 1955

Source-backed taxonomic record

Accepted species in Catalogue of Life’s 11 September 2026 base release. This preserves the source classification and available supporting data; it is not a completed species monograph.

Open encyclopedia reference

Eumicrotremus tartaricus is a species of lumpfish native to the Northwest Pacific. It is known from the Sea of Japan, the Sea of Okhotsk, Peter the Great Bay, and the Pacific coast of the Kuril Islands, where it may be found at a depth range of 20 to 30 m (66 to 98 ft). It has sometimes been considered a subspecies of the Pacific spiny lumpsucker (Eumicrotremus orbis), but it is generally agreed upon that E. tartaricus represents its own distinct species.

Wikipedia contributors, Eumicrotremus tartaricus; see linked history · CC BY-SA 4.0 . Plain-text lead excerpt, at most 180 words; no infobox or later sections Retrieved 2026-10-05T06:01:51.375875+00:00. This reference remains separate from the taxonomic record.

Identity & source status

Scientific name
Eumicrotremus tartaricus Lindberg & Legeza, 1955
Name authority
Lindberg & Legeza, 1955
Common name
Tatar lumpsucker
Rank
species
Accepted status
accepted
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Teleostei
Order
Perciformes
Family
Cyclopteridae
Genus
Eumicrotremus
Extinction status
Not supplied by this source

Source habitat flags: Marine: yes · Freshwater: no · Terrestrial: no. These do not form a complete habitat description.

Classification family tree

Nested taxonomic groups from the source. This is not a direct-ancestor chain, a dated evolutionary tree or a phylogenetic reconstruction.

  1. domainEukaryota (Chatton, 1925) Whittaker & Margulis, 1978
  2. kingdomAnimalia
  3. phylumChordata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. infraphylumGnathostomata
  6. parvphylumOsteichthyes
  7. gigaclassActinopterygii
  8. superclassActinopteri
  9. classTeleostei
  10. orderPerciformes
  11. suborderCottoidei
  12. familyCyclopteridae Bonaparte, 1831
  13. genusEumicrotremus Gill, 1862
  14. speciesEumicrotremus tartaricus Lindberg & Legeza, 1955

Close classified relatives

These entries share the source’s genus, Eumicrotremus. They are not necessarily the closest relatives established by molecular evidence.

SpeciesClassificationSource status
Ballon lumpfishEumicrotremus pacificus Schmidt, 1904CyclopteridaeChordataAccepted speciesExtinction status not supplied
Siberian lumpsuckerEumicrotremus asperrimus (Tanaka, 1912)CyclopteridaeChordataAccepted speciesExtinction status not supplied
Eumicrotremus fedorovi Mandrytsa, 1991CyclopteridaeChordataAccepted speciesExtinction status not supplied
Alaskan lumpsuckerEumicrotremus gyrinops (Garman, 1892)CyclopteridaeChordataAccepted speciesExtinction status not supplied
Atlantic spiny lumpsuckerEumicrotremus spinosus (Fabricius, 1776)CyclopteridaeChordataAccepted speciesExtinction status not supplied
Pacific spiny lumpsuckerEumicrotremus orbis (Günther, 1861)CyclopteridaeChordataAccepted speciesExtinction status not supplied
Taranetz’s lumpsuckerEumicrotremus taranetzi Perminov, 1936CyclopteridaeChordataAccepted speciesExtinction status not supplied
pimpled lumpsuckerEumicrotremus andriashevi Perminov, 1936CyclopteridaeChordataAccepted speciesExtinction status not supplied
Eumicrotremus uenoi Kai, Ikeguchi & Nakabo, 2017CyclopteridaeChordataAccepted speciesExtinction status not supplied
Eumicrotremus lindbergi (Soldatov, 1930)CyclopteridaeChordataAccepted speciesExtinction status not supplied

Browse 19 records assigned to Cyclopteridae.

Names & synonyms

Names explicitly linked to this accepted taxon in the source. Synonymy can change with revision.

Recorded nameSource status
Eumicrotremus orbis tartaricus Lindberg & Legeza, 1955 Lindberg & Legeza, 1955synonym

Source literature & publication evidence

References attached to this source record, including nomenclatural citations where supplied. This is a selected bibliography; abbreviated citations remain in the source’s form.

  1. Lindberg, G. U., & Legeza, M. I. (1955). A review of the genera and species of the subfamily Cyclopterinae (Pisces). Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta, Akademii Nauk SSSR, 18: 389–458. [In Russian. English translation by Israel Program for Scientific Translations, 1964.]. Source fields: Taxon.tsv dwc:namePublishedIn, Taxon.tsv dcterms:references

Origins, evidence & remaining research

Name authority and publication references document nomenclature where the source supplies it. They do not establish evolutionary origins or the earliest fossil occurrence.

Specimen-level evidence, morphology, ecological research, phylogenetic studies, a comprehensive bibliography and a located literary passage have not yet been compiled for this record. A suitable sourced image remains to be added.

Dataset citation & attribution

This exact taxon in ChecklistBank · Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11

Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11; dataset 316321; doi:10.48580/dgz5n. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ . Retrieved 5 October 2026.

Stable key: col:6GWTW. Classification follows source parent identifiers. English common names may vary by region.