Brook lamprey

Brook lamprey

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Cephalaspidomorphi
Order:	Petromyzontiformes
Family:	Petromyzontidae
Genus:	Lampetra
Species:	L. The conservation status of a Species is an indicator of the likelihood of that species remaining extant either in the present day or the near future Near Threatened ( NT) is a Conservation status assigned to species or lower taxa which may be considered threatened with extinction in the near future although The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (also known as the IUCN Red List or Red Data List) created in 1963 is the world's most comprehensive inventory of the global Chordates ( Phylum Chordata) are a group of Animals that includes the Vertebrates together with several closely related Invertebrates Cephalaspidomorphs are a Taxon of jawless fishes named for the cephalaspids a group of osteostracans. A lamprey (sometimes also called lamprey eel) is a Jawless fish with a toothed funnel-like sucking mouth A lamprey (sometimes also called lamprey eel) is a Jawless fish with a toothed funnel-like sucking mouth UserPolbot. --> Lampetra is a genus of Fish in the Petromyzontidae family planeri

Binomial name

Lampetra planeri
Bloch, 1784

The Brook lamprey (Lampetra planeri, also known as the European brook lamprey and the Western brook lamprey) is a jawless fish found in the European part of the Atlantic Ocean, the northwest Mediterranean, and on the European continent. Marcus Elieser Bloch (1723 - 1799 was a German Medical doctor and Naturalist. The jaw is either of the two opposable structures forming or near the entrance to the Mouth. This lamprey is the most common north European species and is also the smallest. Adult brook lamprey (Lampetra planeri) measure from 12-14cm and spawn in gravels during the springtime. Although they are found in small streams, as their name suggests, they are also found in larger rivers. Brook lamprey ammocoetes live in soft sandy/mud for a number of years before maturing. These young lampreys are blind and are filter feeders, eating detritus and other organic matter.

Unlike most species of lamprey, the adults do not migrate to sea nor do they have a parasitic phase. Adult brook lamprey do not feed and they spawn close to the soft sediment in which they were previously resident.

References

Animal, Smithsonian Institution, 2005

Dictionary

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A small European lamprey, Lampetra planeri.

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