#lumpsuckers

[uncharismatic-fauna]

Uncharismatic Fact of the Day

Often hailed as beautiful and powerful, lumpsucker fish have many talents; one important skill they lack, though, is swimming. Lumpsucker bodies are almost perfectly round, which isn't very hydrodynamic. On top of that, they lack a swim bladder-- an organ that other fish use to control their bouyancy. As a result, lumpsuckers spend most of their lives suctioned onto rocks or coral.

(Image: A pair of Pacific spiny lumpsickers (Eumicrotremus orbis) by the Shedd Aquarium)

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[amnhnyc]

What’s a spiny lumpsucker? No, it’s not a nickname for your ex: The spiny lumpsucker (Eumicrotremus orbis) is a fish that inhabits parts of the Pacific from the Washington State coast to Japan and up into the Bering Sea. Typically growing only 3 in (7.6 cm) long, it can often be spotted camouflaged in grass beds and rocky areas, avoiding predators such as cod and lancetfish. Its body shape and small fins mean that it isn’t the best swimmer, but a powerful pelvic fin helps this fish stick to solid surfaces, acting like a suction cup to hold it in place.

Photo: Sara Thiebaud, CC BY-NC 4.0, iNaturalist

[chunkfunkgunk-offishal]

how about a pacific spiny lumpsucker :)

Today on CHUNK! FUNK! GUNK! We rate

the PACIFIC SPINY LUMPSUCKER:

5/10 Chunk

10/10 Funk

9/10 Gunk

Once again we come across a creature I had never heard of before today. Apparently they’re very bony, but since they have such a square shape to them I give them a little chunk. They have a very very funky look and a strange gimmick, high funk. These fish are also very slimy (as found in my brief googling of them), high gunk.

Overall: 9/10

Its eyes are so full of hope. Its mouth is always agape in a state of wonder. Its tummy goes suck suck.

It is beautiful.

[herpsandbirds]

you probably know where this is going-

"very beautiful, very powerful"

YASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS...

Lumpsucker aka Lumpfish (Cyclopterus lumpus), family Cyclopteridae, order Scorpaeniformes, found in the North Atlantic Ocean and nearby areas of the Arctic Ocean.

Females grow to be larger than the males, growing to a size of up to 61 cm (24 in) in length, and 9.6 kg (21 lb 3 oz) in weight.

The females lay eggs in nest areas established by the males on rocky outcrops. He stays and guards the eggs until hatching.

Suction discs formed by the pelvic fins allow the fish to stick to various surfaces.

Males turn bright orange or red during the breeding season. Juveniles are often greenish or other various colors.

photographs: Siamdive, Ryan Photographic, Joachim S. Maller, Haplochromis 

[spacefinch]

Very beautiful, very powerful.

Images that I think are incredibly important

[fishyfishyfishtimes]

Daily fish fact #765

Lumpfish!

Though they lack a swim bladder, they spend considerable amounts of time in the upper and middle parts of the water column, as well as on the seafloor. They make annual large migrations between deeper open water and shallower coastal breeding grounds.

[marinememes]

[character-of-all-time]

ROUND 2: LUMPSUCKER FISH (fish) VS WORM ON A STRING (worm)

[pleistocene-pride]

Eumicrotremus orbis, better known as the pacific spiny lumpsucker or pacific spiny lumpfish is a species of bony fish in the family Cyclopteridae which inhabit the Northern Pacific coast of North America from Washington state, to the Aleutian Islands of Alaska, as well as the Bering Sea, the Chukchi Sea, and around northern Japan. The tend to be found in near shore waters up to 500ft (150m) in depth, where they dwell around eelgrass beds, rocky reefs, kelp patches, bays, ship wrecks, docks, harbors, and other aquatic structures. They tend to live alone or in small groups and feed upon various slow moving invertebrates such as worms, small crustaceans, and mollusks. They are even know to occasionally pick the parasites off other fish, a behavior that has lead these lumpfish along with there relatives (particularly the atlantic lumpsucker) to be kept as a form of biological parasite control on fish farms. Pacific spiny lumpsuckers are themselves preyed upon by cod, sablefish, sculpins, and lancefish. Reaching 1 to 7 inches (2.5 to 18cms) in length, Pacific spiny lumpsuckers are a globular-shaped fish with a wide mouth, large lips, protruding eyes, squared dorsal fin, rounded caudal fin, and thin, transparent pectoral fins. The lumpsucker's pelvic fins have evolved into a large, fringed suction cup, allowing it to attach to surfaces like rocks or kelp. This sucker also compensates the fish for its lack of gas bladder, also they are poor swimmers they tend to set motionless and use camouflage to avoid detection. They do not have scales, instead the body of the fish is covered in cone-shaped plates, called tubercles. They may vary in color from green to yellow to brown to red to orange. Spawning occurs in shallow warmer waters from July to October with females laying around 200 orange spherical eggs in a sheltered hole. After the eggs are laid they are guarded and cared for by the male until hatching some 3 to 8 weeks later.

[justp34chy]

So I'm on vacation to visit my family in Ontario and I went to ripleys aquarium :3

Here's some of my fav fish

[cutiepieautistic]

Our top favorite animals stimboard 4/?

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[sitting-on-me-bum]

Lumpsucker

Tatiana Mironenko / Getty Images

[eddieintheocean]

very beautiful. very powerful (but from 1959)

[itistimetodisappear]

Oh venomous lumpsucker was a very beautiful and very powerful book

[character-of-all-time]

ROUND 1: GUY MONTAG (fahreninheihent 451) VS LUMPSUCKER FISH (very beautiful very powerful)

[obeetlebeetle]

1, 3 and 17 for the asks! 🌿

what are 3 things you’d say shaped you into who you are?

tiffany aching, my friend sean telling me in high school that if i volunteered at the library for about a year i could probably get his shelving job when he left to work at blue springs, & 'uninhabitable worlds' (course i took in my third year of college as an intro to ecocrit)

3 films you could watch for the rest of your life and not get bored of?

snowpiercer, kotonoha no niwa, and whisper of the heart!

name 3 things that make you happy

talking to my coworkers abt our weekends, when ppl text me abt something silly ive said on the blog, 5min+ voice messages from my friends!