Spotted lumpsucker
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The spotted lumpsucker has many small black dots over its body.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Spotted lumpsucker
- Scientific name
- Eumicrotremus pacificus
- Japanese name
- フウセンウオ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Cyclopteridae
- Genus
- Eumicrotremus
It lives around the coasts of Hokkaido, southern Sakhalin, the Kuril Islands and the west coast of Kamchatka.
It is not a strong swimmer; it clings to rocks and seaweed with its pelvic fins, which have become a suction disc.
How the Spotted lumpsucker lives
It is said to lay its eggs inside gastropod shells. The male is said to guard the eggs.
稚内市ノシャップ寒流水族館Basic data
- Range
- Hokkaido coast, northeastern East China Sea, southern Sakhalin, Kuril Islands, western Kamchatka Peninsula, and elsewhere
Where the Spotted lumpsucker has been recorded
Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF
Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.
Names around the world
- 日本語
- フウセンウオ
- 简体中文
- 太平洋真圆鳍鱼
- 繁體中文
- 太平洋真圓鰭魚
- 한국어
- 골린어
- Português (Brasil)
- Peixe-lapa-de-Hokkaido
- Русский
- Пятнистый круглопёр
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- 鳥羽水族館 — フウセンウオChecked: 2026-11-04
- 稚内市ノシャップ寒流水族館 — ノシャップ寒流水族館で孵化したフウセンウオ（平成25年（2013年）の記録）Checked: 2026-11-07
We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.
The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.
The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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