Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Chordata > Subphylum Vertebrata > Infraphylum Gnathostomata > Parvphylum Osteichthyes > Gigaclass Actinopterygii > Subclass Neopterygii > Class Teleostei > Order Perciformes > Suborder Zoarcoidei > Family Stichaeidae > Subfamily Lumpeninae > Genus Lumpenus

Lumpenus lampretaeformis (Walbaum, 1792)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Lumpenus*	Reinhardt, 1836	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Blennius lumpretaeformis*	Walbaum, 1792	orthographic variant
*Lumpenus lumpretaeformis*	(Walbaum, 1792)	orthographic variant
*Blennius lampretaeformis*	Walbaum, 1792	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Danish: spidshalet langebarn sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Dutch: Ijslandse bandvis sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

English: snake blenny; snakeblenny sources: Wheeler, A. (1992). A list of the common and scientific names of fishes of the British Isles. J. Fish Biol. 41(Suppl. A): 1-37;North-West Atlantic Ocean species (NWARMS)

French: lompénie-serpent sources: Nozères C., Archambault D., Chouinard P.-M., Gauthier J., Miller R., Parent E., Schwab P., Savard L., and Dutil J.-D. 2010. Identification guide for marine fishes of the estuary and northern Gulf of St. Lawrence and sampling protocols used during trawl surveys between 2004 and 2008. Can. Tech. Rep. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 2866: xi + 243 p

Norwegian Bokmål: langhalet langebarn sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian Nynorsk: langhala langebarn sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Swedish: spetslångebarn; spetsstjärtat långebarn sources: Dyntaxa. (2013). Swedish Taxonomic Database. Accessed at www.dyntaxa.se [15-01-2013].;PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Welsh: llyfrothen fain

Literature

basis of record	Wheeler, A. (1992). A list of the common and scientific names of fishes of the British Isles. J. Fish Biol. 41(Suppl. A): 1-37
additional source	Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024).
ecology source	Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. Scientific Data. 10(1).

Genbank

External Links

FishBase
FishBase images (Lumpenus lampretaeformis, by Svensen, E.)

Citation

Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Lumpenus lampretaeformis (Walbaum, 1792). Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:154675