Cyclopterus lumpus

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Cyclopterus lumpus, the lumpsucker or lumpfish, is a species of marine fish in the family Cyclopteridae (lumpsuckers). It is the only member of the genus Cyclopterus. It is found in open water in the Norwegian and Barents Sea and around the coasts of Greenland and Canada. It ranges as far south as Chesapeake Bay (rare south of New Jersey) on the North American coast and Spain on the European coast.