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What is a sea lamprey? How does it live and breed? How did it get into Lake Champlain? ... The sea lamprey (Petromyzon marinus) is one of 31 species of lamprey found throughout the world and one of four lamprey species found in the Lake Champlain Basin. Lamprey are eel-shaped fish with a skeleton made of cartilage, not bone.
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www.dec.ny.gov/animals/7242.html
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A species profile for Sea Lamprey from USDA's National Invasive Species Information Center. ... Management Plans: Aquatic Species / Sea Lamprey...
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www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov/aquatics/lamprey.shtml
www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov/aquatics/lamprey.shtml
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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...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamprey
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The lamprey is a potential threat to recreationally and commercially important species in the Chesapeake Bay, although it isn't present in sufficient numbers to be a major destructive force.
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www.fisheries.vims.edu/lamprey.htm
www.fisheries.vims.edu/lamprey.htm
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Lamprey species description from the Alaska Wildlife Notebook Series publication, Alaska Department of Fish and Game. ... Pacific lampreys are typically five to 28 inches long as adults, which are much larger than the other species of lamprey in Alaska. They remain as ammocoetes for four to five years at which time...
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www.adfg.state.ak.us/pubs/notebook/fish/lampreys.php
www.adfg.state.ak.us/pubs/notebook/fish/lampreys.php
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Because they lack mineralized tissues such as bone, lampreys are rare as fossils, and their early evolutionary history is still poorly known. Only three definite lamprey species are known from the fossil record, all from the Pennsylvanian (Late Carboniferous) of northeastern Illinois.
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www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/vertebrates/basalfish/petro.html
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Alias (scientific name in latin): Petromyzon marinus; other aliases: great sea lamprey, lake lamprey, lamprey, lamprey eel ... Sea lampreys will lay over 100,000 eggs when spawning, much more than the native lamprey species.
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www.dnr.state.wi.us/org/caer/ce/eek/critter/invert/lamp...
www.dnr.state.wi.us/org/caer/ce/eek/critter/invert/lamprey.htm
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Sea lamprey prey on commercially important fish species, such as lake trout, living off of the blood and body fluids of adult fish. During its life as a parasite, each sea lamprey can kill 40 or more pounds of fish.
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www.umesc.usgs.gov/invasive_species/sea_lamprey.html
www.umesc.usgs.gov/invasive_species/sea_lamprey.html
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species', in which the parasitic anadromous lampreys are believed to have given ...... Salewski V (2003) Satellite species in lampreys: a worldwide trend ...
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doi.wiley.com/10.1111/j.1365-294X.2007.03279.x
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