Lumpenidae

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Lumpenidae
Temporal range: Early/Middle Miocene to present
Slender Eelblenny-Lumpenus fabricii.jpg
Slender eelblenny (Lumpenus fabricii)
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Suborder: Zoarcoidei
Family: Lumpenidae
Jordan & Evermann, 1898 [1]
Genera

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Lumpenidae, the eel pricklebacks, is a family of marine ray-finned fishes, classified within the suborder Zoarcoidei. These fishes are found in the North Pacific, Arctic and North Atlantic Oceans. [2] An indeterminate fossil lumpenid is known from the early-middle Miocene-aged Bessho Formation of Honshu, Japan. [3]

Genera

The subfamily contains the following genera: [2]

References

  1. ↑ Richard van der Laan; William N. Eschmeyer & Ronald Fricke (2014). "Family-group names of Recent fishes". Zootaxa. 3882 (2): 001–230. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1 . PMID   25543675.
  2. 1 2 Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Lumpenidae". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 9 August 2022.
  3. ↑ "New fossils of Neogene pricklebacks (Actinopterygii: Stichaeidae) from East Asia". www.zin.ru. Retrieved 20 August 2025.
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