Arctic lamprey

Arctic lamprey
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Superclass: Agnatha
Class: Cephalaspidomorphi
Order: Petromyzontiformes
Family: Petromyzontidae
Subfamily: Petromyzontinae
Genus: Lethenteron
Creaser & Hubbs, 1922
Species: L. camtschaticum
Binomial name
Lethenteron camtschaticum
(Tilesius, 1811)
Synonyms

Lampetra camtschatica
Lampetra japonica
Lethenteron japonicum

Arctic lamprey (Lethenteron camtschaticum) is a freshwater species of lamprey that inhabits the Arctic.

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