Lampetra

Lampetra
A European River Lamprey (L. fluviatilis)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Infraphylum:	Agnatha
Superclass:	Cyclostomi
Class:	Petromyzontida
Order:	Petromyzontiformes
Family:	Petromyzontidae
Genus:	Lampetra Bonnaterre 1788
Type species
Petromyzon planeri Bloch 1784
Synonyms
Lampetra (Okkelbergia) Creaser & Hubbs 1922 Okkelbergia(Creaser & Hubbs 1922)

Lampetra is a genus of lampreys in the family Petromyzontidae.

Phylogenetic studies indicate that this genus as presently defined is polyphyletic, with species of this genus from western North America forming a clade that forms the sister group to Lethenteron , Eudontomyzon , and Lampetra sensu stricto (eastern North American and European species). ^[1]

Species

The currently recognized species in this genus are: ^[2]

• Lampetra aepyptera (C. C. Abbott, 1860) (Least brook lamprey)
• Lampetra alavariensis Mateus, Alves, Quintella & P. R. Almeida, 2013 (Portuguese lamprey) ^[3]
• Lampetra auremensis Mateus, Alves, Quintella & P. R. Almeida, 2013 (Qurem lamprey) ^[3]
• Lampetra ayresii (Günther, 1870) (Western river lamprey)
• Lampetra fluviatilis (Linnaeus, 1758) (European river lamprey)
• Lampetra hubbsi (Vladykov & Kott 1976) (Kern brook lamprey)
• Lampetra lanceolata Kux & H. M. Steiner, 1972 (Turkish brook lamprey)
• Lampetra lusitanica Mateus, Alves, Quintella & P. R. Almeida, 2013 ^[3]
• Lampetra pacifica Vladykov 1973 (Pacific brook lamprey)
• Lampetra planeri (Bloch, 1784) (European brook lamprey)
• Lampetra richardsoni (Vladykov & Follett, 1965) (Western brook lamprey)
• Lampetra soljani Tutman, Freyhof, Dulčić, Glamuzina & Geiger, 2017
• Lampetra zanandreai Vladykov, 1955 (Po brook lamprey)

References

1. Brownstein, Chase Doran; Near, Thomas J. (2023-01-23). "Phylogenetics and the Cenozoic radiation of lampreys". Current Biology. 33 (2): 397–404.e3. Bibcode:2023CBio...33E.397B. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2022.12.018 . ISSN   0960-9822. PMID   36586410. S2CID   255278945.
2. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Lampetra". FishBase . January 2024 version.
3. Mateus, C.S., Alves, M.J., Quintella, B.R. & Almeida, P.R. (2013): Three new cryptic species of the lamprey genus Lampetra Bonnaterre, 1788 (Petromyzontiformes: Petromyzontidae) from the Iberian Peninsula. Archived 2013-06-20 at the Wayback Machine Contributions to Zoology, 82 (1): 37-53.