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Lamprey - Taxonomy

Lamprey - Taxonomy: Encyclopedia II - Lamprey - Taxonomy

The taxonomy presented here is that given by Fisher, 1994. The lampreys comprise an entire class Cephalaspidomorphi, containing a single order Petromyzontiformes and family Petromyzontidae. Within this family, there are 40 recorded species in 9 genera and 3 subfamilies: Subfamily Geotriianae Genus Geotria Geotria australis (Gray,1851) Subfamily Mordaciinae Genus Mordacia Mordacia lapicida (Gray, 1851) ...

Lamprey: Encyclopedia II - Lamprey - Taxonomy

Lamprey - Taxonomy

The taxonomy presented here is that given by Fisher, 1994. The lampreys comprise an entire class Cephalaspidomorphi, containing a single order Petromyzontiformes and family Petromyzontidae.

Within this family, there are 40 recorded species in 9 genera and 3 subfamilies:

Subfamily Geotriianae
- Genus Geotria
  - Geotria australis (Gray,1851)
Subfamily Mordaciinae
- Genus Mordacia
  - Mordacia lapicida (Gray, 1851)
  - Mordacia mordax (Richardson, 1846)
  - Mordacia praecox (Potter, 1968)
Subfamily Petromyzontinae
- Genus Caspiomyzon
  - Caspiomyzon wagneri (Kessler, 1870)
- Genus Eudontomyzon
  - Eudontomyzon danfordi (Regan, 1911)
  - Eudontomyzon hellenicus (Vladykov, Renaud, Kott and Economidis, 1982)
  - Eudontomyzon mariae (Berg, 1931)
  - Eudontomyzon morii (Berg, 1931)
  - Eudontomyzon stankokaramani (Karaman, 1974)
  - Eudontomyzon vladykovi (Oliva and Zanandrea, 1959)
- Genus Ichthyomyzon
  - Ichthyomyzon bdellium (Jordan, 1885) - Ohio Lamprey
  - Ichthyomyzon castaneus Girard, 1858 - Chestnut Lamprey
  - Ichthyomyzon fossor (Reighard and Cummins, 1916) - Northern Brook Lamprey
  - Ichthyomyzon gagei (Hubbs and Trautman, 1937) - Southern Brook Lamprey
  - Ichthyomyzon greeleyi (Hubbs and Trautman, 1937) - Mountain Brook Lamprey
  - Ichthyomyzon unicuspis (Hubbs and Trautman, 1937) - Silver Lamprey
- Genus Lampetra
  - Lampetra aepyptera (Abbott, 1860) - Least Brook lamprey
  - Lampetra alaskensis (Vladykov and Kott, 1978)
  - Lampetra appendix (DeKay, 1842) - American Brook Lamprey
  - Lampetra ayresii (Günther, 1870)
  - Lampetra fluviatilis (Linnaeus, 1758)
  - Lampetra hubbsi (Vladykov and Kott, 1976) - Kern Brook lamprey
  - Lampetra lamottei (Lesueur, 1827)
  - Lampetra lanceolata (Kux and Steiner, 1972)
  - Lampetra lethophaga (Hubbs, 1971) - Pit-Klamath Brook Lamprey
  - Lampetra macrostoma (Beamish, 1982) - Vancouver Lamprey
  - Lampetra minima (Bond and Kan, 1973) - Miller Lake Lamprey
  - Lampetra planeri (Bloch, 1784)
  - Lampetra richardsoni (Vladykov and Follett, 1965) - Western Brook Lamprey
  - Lampetra similis (Vladykov and Kott, 1979) - Klamath Lamprey
  - Lampetra tridentata (Richardson, 1836) - Pacific Lamprey
- Genus Lethenteron
  - Lethenteron camtschaticum (Tilesius, 1811)
  - Lethenteron japonicum (Martens, 1868)
  - Lethenteron kessleri (Anikin, 1905)
  - Lethenteron matsubarai (Vladykov and Kott, 1978)
  - Lethenteron reissneri (Dybowski, 1869)
  - Lethenteron zanandreai (Vladykov, 1955)
- Genus Petromyzon
  - Petromyzon marinus (Linnaeus, 1758) - Sea Lamprey
- Genus Tetrapleurodon
  - Tetrapleurodon geminis (Alvarez, 1964)
  - Tetrapleurodon spadiceus (Bean, 1887)

Notes:

Cephalaspidomorpha is sometimes given as a subclass of the Cephalaspidomorphi.
Petromyzoniformes and Petromyzonidae are sometimes used as alternative spellings for Petromyzontiformes and Petromyzontidae respectively.