Lampetra

<i>Lampetra</i>

Lampetra

Genus of jawless fishes

Lampetra is a genus of lampreys in the family Petromyzontidae.

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Phylogenetic studies indicate that this genus as presently defined is polyphyletic, with species of this genus from western North America forming a clade that forms the sister group to Lethenteron, Eudontomyzon, and Lampetra sensu stricto (eastern North American and European species).[1]

Species

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

  • Lampetra aepyptera (C. C. Abbott, 1860) (Least brook lamprey)
  • Lampetra alavariensis Mateus, Alves, Quintella & P. R. Almeida, 2013 (Portuguese lamprey)[3]
  • Lampetra auremensis Mateus, Alves, Quintella & P. R. Almeida, 2013 (Qurem lamprey)[3]
  • Lampetra ayresii (Günther, 1870) (Western river lamprey)
  • Lampetra fluviatilis (Linnaeus, 1758) (European river lamprey)
  • Lampetra hubbsi (Vladykov & Kott 1976) (Kern brook lamprey)
  • Lampetra lanceolata Kux & H. M. Steiner, 1972 (Turkish brook lamprey)
  • Lampetra lusitanica Mateus, Alves, Quintella & P. R. Almeida, 2013[3]
  • Lampetra pacifica Vladykov 1973 (Pacific brook lamprey)
  • Lampetra planeri (Bloch, 1784) (European brook lamprey)
  • Lampetra richardsoni (Vladykov & Follett, 1965) (Western brook lamprey)
  • Lampetra soljani Tutman, Freyhof, Dulčić, Glamuzina & Geiger, 2017
  • Lampetra zanandreai Vladykov, 1955 (Po brook lamprey)

References

  1. [1]
    Brownstein, Chase Doran; Near, Thomas J. (2023-01-23). "Phylogenetics and the Cenozoic radiation of lampreys". Current Biology. 33 (2): 397–404.e3. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2022.12.018. ISSN 0960-9822. PMID 36586410. S2CID 255278945.
  2. [2]
    Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2024). Species of Lampetra in FishBase. January 2024 version.
  3. [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. Archived 2013-06-20 at the Wayback Machine Contributions to Zoology, 82 (1): 37-53.


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