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Lethenteron camtschaticum
Description
Lethenteron camtschaticum (Tilesius, 1811).
Arctic Lamprey. To 62.5 cm (24.6 in) TL (McPhail and Lindsey 1970). Almost circumpolar; White Sea and coasts of Barents Sea eastward off Siberia and Alaskan coasts to Beaufort Sea off Anderson River, Canada, and south through Chukchi and Bering Seas to Honshu, Japan, and Korean Peninsula in western Pacific Ocean; Kenai Peninsula, Gulf of Alaska in eastern Pacific; East Finnmark in eastern Atlantic (Mecklenburg et al. 2011). Depth: at sea to 50 m (164 ft) (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). Anadromous. Recently as Lampetra camtschatica (Tilesius, 1811). Provisionally considered to be a junior synonym of Lethenteron kessleri (Anikin, 1905) by Naseka and Renaud (2020).
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
- Lethenteron
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Petromyzontiformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Tilesius
- Species
- camtschaticum
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Lethenteron camtschaticum (Tilesius, 1811) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- McPhail, J. D. & Lindsey, C. C. (1970) Freshwater fishes of northwestern Canada and Alaska. Bulletin of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada, 173.
- Mecklenburg, C. W., Moller, P. R. & Steinke, D. (2011) Biodiversity of arctic marine fishes: taxonomy and zoogeography. Marine Biodiversity, 41, 109 - 140. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / s 12526 - 010 - 0070 - z
- Naseka, A. M. & Renaud, C. B. (2020) Morphology-based taxonomic re-assessment of the Arctic lamprey, Lethenteron camtschaticum (Tilesius, 1811) and taxonomic position of other members of the genus. Zookeys, 991, 1 - 67.