#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)

[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

[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

[copper-skulls]

For the animal ask! YOU DIDNT SAY ANYTHING ABOUT HEDGEHOGS (yeah I know theyre still pretty mainstream animals but theyre cute!)

Then of course theres lumpfish (very beautiful, very powerful)

Have a great day/night! <3

i love hedgehogs and their little midnight stompy trips around my tent in the summer

and I tried to find the Smallest possible lumpfish to ref off of, but it is still so Very Beautiful, Very Powerful

[daftpatience]

at the library you can sometimes find books about bugs and fishes

[luciferspartner]

I used to be so afraid of using stickers. I was worried I would put them on the wrong thing or I’d use the thing up and the stickers would be lost with it or they’d be wasted or I’d change my mind.

I started putting stickers on everything. My laptop. My journals. My window. My pill cases. I am using them up and I am enjoying them and they make me happy. Happiness does not have to be eternal to be worth seeking.

[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!