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Title: Lumpsucker attached. Iceland
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A male lumpsucker (Cyclopterus lumpus) uses his sucker (modified pelvic fins) to attach to this rock in the surge of water moving through this kelp forest. Hallbjarnarstadur near Husavik, north east Iceland. North Atlantic Ocean
- Bony Fishes: Osteichthyes
- Cyclopteridae
- Fishes
- Hallbjarnarstadur
- Husavik
- Iceland
- lump: lumpfish: henfish: lumpsucker: Cyclopterus lumpus
- macro
- male
- Marine Life
- North Atlantic Ocean
- temperate
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