Smooth lumpsucker
Amazing fact
In Hokkaido, smooth lumpsucker is used in a familiar regional dish called gokko-jiru.
鳥羽水族館
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In Hokkaido, smooth lumpsucker is used in a familiar regional dish called gokko-jiru.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Smooth lumpsucker
- Scientific name
- Aptocyclus ventricosus
- Japanese name
- ホテイウオ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Cyclopteridae
- Genus
- Aptocyclus
It lives widely in northern seas, from the coasts of Hokkaido and Honshu to the Kamchatka Peninsula and the Bering Sea.
Basic data
- Range
- Hokkaido, Sea of Japan coast from Aomori to Oki in Shimane, Yamato Bank, Tsushima, and elsewhere
- Conservation status in Japan
- Data Deficient (DD)Ministry of the Environment of Japan, Marine Red List (2017)
Where the Smooth 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
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 — ホテイウオChecked: 2026-11-04
- Ministry of the Environment of Japan, Marine Red List (2017)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.
The conservation status in Japan is the category in the Red Lists of the Ministry of the Environment of Japan, which assess the risk of extinction for wild animals in Japan.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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