Lampetra
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A European River Lamprey (L. fluviatilis) | |
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Genus: | Lampetra Bonnaterre 1788
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Petromyzon planeri Bloch 1784
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Lampetra is a genus of lampreys in the subfamily Petromyzontinae.
Species
The currently recognized species in this genus are:[1]
- Lampetra aepyptera (C. C. Abbott, 1860) (Least brook lamprey)
- Lampetra alavariensis Mateus, Alves, Quintella & P. R. Almeida, 2013 (Portuguese lamprey)[2]
- Lampetra auremensis Mateus, Alves, Quintella & P. R. Almeida, 2013 (Qurem lamprey)[2]
- Lampetra ayresii (Günther, 1870) (Western river lamprey)
- Lampetra fluviatilis (Linnaeus, 1758) (European river lamprey)
- Lampetra hubbsi (Vladykov & Kott 1976) (Kern brook lamprey)
- Lampetra lamottei (Lesueur, 1827) (Brook lamprey)
- Lampetra lanceolata Kux & H. M. Steiner, 1972 (Turkish brook lamprey)
- Lampetra lusitanica Mateus, Alves, Quintella & P. R. Almeida, 2013[2]
- Lampetra pacifica Vladykov 1973 (Pacific brook lamprey)
- Lampetra planeri (Bloch, 1784) (European brook lamprey)
- Lampetra richardsoni (Vladykov & Follett, 1965) (Western brook lamprey)
References
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Lampetra". FishBase. April 2013 version.
- ^ a b c Mateus, C.S., Alves, M.J., Quintella, B.R. & Almeida, P.R. (2013): Three new cryptic species of the lamprey genus Lampetra Bonnaterre, 1788 (Petromyzontiformes: Petromyzontidae) from the Iberian Peninsula. Archived 2013-06-20 at the Wayback Machine Contributions to Zoology, 82 (1): 37-53.