Lampetra

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Lampetra
River Lamprey (L. fluviatilis)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Cephalaspidomorphi
Order: Petromyzontiformes
Family: Petromyzontidae
Genus: Lampetra
Bonnaterre, 1788
Type species
Petromyzon planeri
Bloch, 1784

Lampetra is a genus of lampreys in the subfamily Petromyzontinae.

Species

The currently recognized species in this genus are: [1][2]

  • Lampetra aepyptera (C. C. Abbott, 1860) (least brook lamprey)
  • Lampetra alavariensis Mateus, Alves, Quintella & P. R. Almeida, 2013[2]
  • Lampetra auremensis Mateus, Alves, Quintella & P. R. Almeida, 2013[2]
  • Lampetra ayresii (Günther, 1870)
  • Lampetra fluviatilis (Linnaeus, 1758) (river 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 planeri (Bloch, 1784) (European brook lamprey)
  • Lampetra richardsoni (Vladykov & Follett, 1965) (western brook lamprey)

References

  1. Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2013). Species of Lampetra in FishBase. April 2013 version.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 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. Contributions to Zoology, 82 (1): 37-53.
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