Lumpenidae

Lumpenidae
Temporal range:
Slender eelblenny (Lumpenus fabricii)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Suborder: Zoarcoidei
Family: Lumpenidae
Jordan & Evermann, 1898
Genera

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Lumpenidae, the eel pricklebacks, is a family of marine ray-finned fishes, classified within the suborder Zoarcoidei. These fishes are found in the North Pacific, Arctic and North Atlantic Oceans. An indeterminate fossil lumpenid is known from the early-middle Miocene-aged Bessho Formation of Honshu, Japan.