Tetrapleurodon

Tetrapleurodon
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Cephalaspidomorphi
Order: Petromyzontiformes
Family: Petromyzontidae
Genus: Tetrapleurodon
Creaser & C. L. Hubbs, 1922

Tetrapleurodon is a genus of lampreys that are endemic to the Lerma–Chapala basin in west–central Mexico. Both species are threatened.[1]

Species

There are two recognized species in this genus according to FishBase.[2] They are somtimes included in the genus Lampetra instead.[1]

  • Tetrapleurodon geminis Álvarez, 1964 (Mexican brook lamprey)
  • Tetrapleurodon spadiceus (T. H. Bean, 1887) (Mexican lamprey)

References

  1. 1 2 Ceballos, G.; E.D. Pardo; L.M Estévez; H.E. Pérez, eds. (2016). Los peces dulceacuícolas de México en peligro de extinción. ISBN 978-607-16-4087-1.
  2. ↑ Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2012). Species of Tetrapleurodon in FishBase. April 2012 version.
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