🐡 Our feature article on our new project about the #lumpsucker (also known as #lumpfish, Cyclopterus lumpus) is now available in English! 🐡
#teamfish
Lead by Jane Behrens
funded by @Seabreak 🐡
🐡 Team Lump 🐡 also includes Karin Hüssy & @fishybiologistkim.bsky.social
www.aqua.dtu.dk/english/news...
A Google overview labeled "Sarcastic fringehead." Below that is a photo of two, darkly colored fish. Their upper lips are pink and lower yellow. The fish to the left is gaping its mouth extremely wide. Beneath that is an excerpt from Wikipedia in a pale, blue box. Text reads "Overview. The sarcastic fringehead is a small but hardy saltwater tube-blenny that possesses a large mouth and aggressive territorial behavior, for which it has been given its common name. Wikipedia."
The image of a small, yellow, fuzzy fish. It is labeled "Cyclopteridae, also known as lumpfish or lumpsuckers." The word lumpsuckers is underlined with a red squiggle.
The photo of a grey fish labeled "Plectorhinchus caeruleonothus, the blue bastard." The words blue bastard are underlined in red.
The illustrations of a small, narrow, pointed fish. It is labeled "bony-eared assfish."
Funny fish species, because we are all grown adults #taxonomyisfun #sarcasticfringehead #lumpsucker #bluebastard #bonyearedassfish
A yellow colored round fish sticking on a rock with its pectoral fins. Rocks can be seen in the background.
A charming Pacific spiny lumpsucker for #acoloradAyPRIL #Yellow
#MarineLife #SeattleAquarium #Lumpsucker #PNW #PugetSound #Fish
A Pacific spiny lumpsucker perched on a rock covered with pink algae
A close-up of a Pacific spiny lumpsucker attached sideways to a kelp leaf, eyes reflecting a blue-green color
A Pacific spiny lumpsucker adhered sideways to a kelp leaf, mouth slightly agape, one eye shining blue
Some of the cutest fish to be found in Puget Sound, meet the Pacific spiny lumpsucker 🥰
#MarineLife #Fish #Lumpsucker #SpinyLumpsucker #CutenessOverload #PNW #PugetSound #Ichthyophile #TeamFish #Seattle
