Lethotremus
Lethotremus is a monospecific genus of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Cyclopteridae, the lumpfishes or lumpsuckers. This genus is found in the northern Pacific Ocean. Following a 2017 taxonomic review by Lee et al., the species Lethotremus awae was reclassified as a species of Eumicrotremus, leaving the genus monotypic with Lethotremus muticus as its only species.[1][2]
| Lethotremus | |
|---|---|
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| Lethotremus muticus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Scorpaeniformes |
| Family: | Cyclopteridae |
| Genus: | Lethotremus |
| Species: | L. muticus |
| Binomial name | |
| Lethotremus muticus C. H. Gilbert, 1896 | |
References
- Kim, Jinkoo (June 2017). "Taxonomic review of dwarf species of Eumicrotremus (Actinopterygii: Cottoidei: Cyclopteridae) with descriptions of two new species from the western North Pacific". Zootaxa – via ResearchGate.
- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2021). Species of Lethotremus in FishBase. December 2021 version.
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