Genus Cyclopterus Linnaeus, 1758

Cyclopterus Linnaeus, 1758: 260 (type species: Cyclopterus lumpus Linnaeus, 1758).

Lumpus Oken (ex. Cuvier), 1817: 1182 (type species: Cyclopterus lumpus Linnaeus, 1758).

Diagnosis. See “Diagnosis” of the subfamily Cyclopterinae .

Remarks. Oken (1817) established the genus Lumpus based on “Les Lumps” in Cuvier (1816) (see Gill, 1903). According to subsequent studies (Lindberg, 1973; Parin et al., 2002; Mecklenburg & Sheiko, 2003), this generic name is a junior objective synonym of Cyclopterus Linnaeus, 1758 .

The genus includes only Cyclopterus lumpus Linnaeus, 1758 .