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Definition of Cyclopterus
1. Noun. Type genus of the Cyclopteridae: lumpfishes.
Generic synonyms: Fish Genus
Group relationships: Cyclopteridae, Family Cyclopteridae
Member holonyms: Cyclopterus Lumpus, Lumpfish
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cyclopterus
Literary usage of Cyclopterus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Pierre André Latreille (1831)
"Cyclopterus lumpus, L.; Bl., 90. (The Lumpsucker.) The first dorsal so enveloped
in a thick and tubercular skin, ..."
2. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1874)
"NOTES ON LIPARIS, Cyclopterus AND THEIR ALLIES. By FW PUTNAM, of Salem, Mass.
ABSTRACT. HAVING my attention directed to this group of fishes by the ..."
3. An Account of the Arctic Regions: With a History and Description of the by William Scoresby (1820)
"Cyclopterus liparis. The unctuous sucker.— Two of these animals were taken by
Captain Phipps to the northward of Spitzbergen. Class PISCES. ..."
4. Synopsis of the Fishes of North America by David Starr Jordan, Charles Henry Gilbert (1882)
"type Cyclopterus lumpus L.) Spinous dorsal present, sometimes disappearing with
age; skin thick, armed with series of bony tubercles; other characters of ..."
5. Guide to the Gallery of Fishes in the Department of Zoology of the British by William George Ridewood (1908)
"The Lump-sucker, Cyclopterus lumpus, 833-834, and fig. 87, is a FIG. 87.—Lump-sucker,
Cyclopterus ..."
6. Narrative of a Voyage to the Polar Sea During 1875-6 in H.M. Ships 'Alert by George Strong Nares, Henry Wemyss Feilden (1878)
"Obtained at Franklin Pierce Bay, August 11, 1875. 4. Cyclopterus SPINOSUS (Mull.)—Previously
known from Iceland, Spitsbergen, and Greenland. ..."
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