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Lampetra ayresii
Description
Lampetra ayresii (Günther, 1870).
Western River Lamprey. To 34.6 cm (13.6 in) TL (Morgan et al. 2018). Tee Harbor, south-eastern Alaska (Scott and Crossman 1973) to San Francisco Bay, northern California (Vladykov and Follett 1958). Anadromous, found in estuaries and coastal marine waters for a few months in summer; depth: at sea, perhaps to 119 m (390 ft) (DFO) (taken in a midwater trawl; Maria Cornthwaite).
Notes
Published as part of Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, pp. 1-285 in Zootaxa 5053 (1) on page 12, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Petromyzontidae
- Genus
- Lampetra
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Petromyzontiformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Gunther
- Species
- ayresii
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Lampetra ayresii (Gunther, 1870) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Morgan, C. A., Zamon, J. E. & Bucher, C. A. (2018) Cruise Report, FV Frosti. NWFSC / NOAA, Cruise 18 - 02.
- Scott, W. B. & Crossman, E. J. (1973) Freshwater fishes of Canada. Bulletin of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada, 184.
- Vladykov, V. D. & Follett, W. I. (1958) Redescription of Lampetra ayresii (Gunther) of western North America, a species of lamprey (Petromyzontidae) distinct from Lampetra fluviatilus (Linnaeus) of Europe. Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada, 15, 47 - 77.