Lampetra

Genus of jawless fishes

Lampetra
A European River Lamprey (L. fluviatilis)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Infraphylum: Agnatha
Class: Hyperoartia
Order: Petromyzontiformes
Family: Petromyzontidae
Genus: Lampetra
Bonnaterre 1788
Type species
Petromyzon planeri
Bloch 1784
Synonyms
  • Lampetra (Okkelbergia) Creaser & Hubbs 1922
  • Okkelbergia (Creaser & Hubbs 1922)

Lampetra is a genus of lampreys in the family Petromyzontidae.

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. ^ 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. ^ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2024). Species of Lampetra in FishBase. January 2024 version.
  3. ^ 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.
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Extant lamprey species
Caspiomyzon
  • Caspian lamprey (C. wagneri)
  • Greek lamprey (C. hellenicus)
  • Ionian brook lamprey (C. graecus)
Entosphenus
  • Modoc brook lamprey (E. folletti)
  • Pit-Klamath brook lamprey (E. lethophagus)
  • Lake lamprey (E. macrostomus)
  • Miller Lake lamprey (E. minimus)
  • Klamath River lamprey (E. similis)
  • Pacific lamprey (E. tridentatus)
Eudontomyzon
  • Carpathian Brook Lamprey (E. danfordi)
  • Korean lamprey (E. morii)
  • Ukrainian brook lamprey (E. mariae)
  • Drin brook Lamprey (E. stankokaramani)
  • Vladykov's lamprey (E. vladykovi)
Geotria
  • Pouched lamprey (G. australis)
Ichthyomyzon
  • Ohio lamprey (I. bdellium)
  • Chestnut Lamprey (I. castaneus)
  • Northern brook lamprey (I. fossor)
  • Southern brook lamprey (I. gagei)
  • Mountain brook lamprey (I. greeleyi)
  • Silver lamprey (I. unicuspis)
Lampetra
  • Least Brook lamprey (L. aepyptera)
  • Portuguese lamprey (L. alavariensis)
  • Qurem lamprey (L. auremensis)
  • Western river lamprey (L. ayresii)
  • European river lamprey (L. fluviatilis)
  • Kern brook lamprey (L. hubbsi)
  • Turkish brook lamprey (L. lanceolata)
  • (L. lusitanica)
  • Pacific brook lamprey (L. pacifica)
  • European brook lamprey (L. planeri)
  • Western brook lamprey (L. richardsoni)
Lethenteron
  • Alaskan brook lamprey (L. alaskensis)
  • American brook lamprey (L. appendix)
  • Arctic lamprey (L. camtschatica)
  • Siberian brook lamprey (L. kessleri)
  • Western Transcaucasian lamprey (L. ninae)
  • Far Eastern brook lamprey (L. reissneri)
  • Lombardy lamprey (L. zanandreai)
Mordacia
  • Chilean lamprey (M. lapicida)
  • Australian lamprey (M. mordax)
  • Non-parasitic lamprey (M. praecox)
Petromyzon
  • Sea lamprey (P. marinus)
Tetrapleurodon
  • Mexican lamprey (T. spadicea)
  • Mexican brook lamprey (T. geminis)
Taxon identifiers
Lampetra
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