Lampetra

Lampetra is a genus of lampreys in the subfamily Petromyzontinae.

Lampetra
A European River Lamprey (L. fluviatilis)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Cephalaspidomorphi
Order:
Petromyzontiformes
Family:
Petromyzontidae
Genus:
Lampetra

Type species
Petromyzon planeri
Bloch 1784
Synonyms
  • Lampetra (Okkelbergia) Creaser & Hubbs 1922
  • Okkelbergia (Creaser & Hubbs 1922)

Species

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

  • Lampetra aepyptera (C. C. Abbott, 1860) (Least brook lamprey)
  • Lampetra alavariensis Mateus, Alves, Quintella & P. R. Almeida, 2013 (Portuguese lamprey)[2]
  • Lampetra auremensis Mateus, Alves, Quintella & P. R. Almeida, 2013 (Qurem lamprey)[2]
  • Lampetra ayresii (Günther, 1870) (Western river lamprey)
  • Lampetra fluviatilis (Linnaeus, 1758) (European river lamprey)
  • Lampetra hubbsi (Vladykov & Kott 1976) (Kern brook 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 pacifica Vladykov 1973 (Pacific brook lamprey)
  • Lampetra planeri (Bloch, 1784) (European brook lamprey)
  • Lampetra richardsoni (Vladykov & Follett, 1965) (Western brook lamprey)

References
  1. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). Species of Lampetra in FishBase. April 2013 version.
  2. 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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