Lamprey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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A lamprey (sometimes also called lamprey eel ) is a parasitic marine animal with a toothed, funnel-like sucking mouth. Translated directly, their name means stone lickers (lambere = to lick, and p...
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Agnatha - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Agnatha (Greek, "no jaws") is a superclass of jawless fish in the phylum Chordata, subphylum Vertebrata. The group excludes all vertebrates with jaws, known as gnathostomes. The agnathans as a whole ...
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Sea lampreys grow up to 1.2 m in length, weighing up to 2.5 kg. They are easily identified by the wide oral disc ('sucker') in place of their mouth, which is filled with many small teeth arranged in circular rows. ... During spawning, the lampreys stop eating, conserving all their energy for reproduction. The males and...
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The long, eel-like fish drinking the blood of this lake trout is one of nearly fifty species of lampreys, a group of jawless fishes found in temperate rivers and coastal seas. Some species live in fresh water for their entire lives.
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www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/vertebrates/basalfish/petro.html
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Here along the Great Lakes they swim up into shallow streams and spawn on rocky areas. Every year thousands are poisoned with lampricide, which makes the streams stink with all the dead eels.
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Habitat / Food: Adult lampreys are parasitic on a large variety of fishes and marine mammals and seek the largest individuals of a species. They attach using a suctorial mouth which has pointed teeth arranged in concentric circles (as seen in the photo).
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www.fisheries.vims.edu/lamprey.htm
www.fisheries.vims.edu/lamprey.htm
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C. Sponges reproduce sexually and asexually. 1. Sperm are released into the surrounding water to be picked up by a nearby sponge ... b. Lampreys are parasitic on other fish, attaching to them with an oral, suckerlike disk. c. Hagfishes are like large worms with “feelers” around the mouth and scavenge dead bodies.
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To reproduce, lampreys return to freshwater, build a nest, then spawn (lay their eggs) and die. ... Other lampreys, such as the brook lamprey (Lampetra planeri), also spend their entire lives in freshwater. They are nonparasitic, however, and do not feed after becoming adults; instead they reproduce and die.
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www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/328874/lamprey
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Lampreys hatch in freshwater and many live their lives entirely in freshwater. Some lampreys migrate to the sea, but must return to freshwater to reproduce. Lampreys have a sucker-like mouth that lacks a jaw...
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www.emc.maricopa.edu/faculty/farabee/BIOBK/BioBookDiver...
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