Lethenteron

Lethenteron
Lethenteron camtschaticum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Infraphylum:	Agnatha
Superclass:	Cyclostomi
Class:	Petromyzontida
Order:	Petromyzontiformes
Family:	Petromyzontidae
Genus:	Lethenteron Creaser & Hubbs, 1922
Type species
Lethenteron appendix (DeKay, 1842)
Synonyms [1]
Lampetra (Lethenteron) Creaser & Hubbs 1922

Lethenteron is a genus of lamprey in the family Petromyzontidae.

Species

There are currently 9 recognized species in this genus: ^[2]

• Lethenteron alaskense Vladykov & Kott, 1978 (Alaskan brook lamprey)
• Lethenteron appendix (DeKay, 1842) (American brook lamprey)
• Lethenteron camtschaticum (Tilesius, 1811) (Arctic lamprey)
• Lethenteron hattai Iwata, Sakai & Goto, 2024 (Southern Japanese brook lamprey) ^[3]
• Lethenteron kessleri (Anikin, 1905) (Siberian brook lamprey)
• Lethenteron mitsukurii (Hatta, 1901) (Northern Japanese brook lamprey) ^[3]
• Lethenteron ninae Naseka, Tuniyev & Renaud, 2009 (Western Transcaucasian lamprey)
• Lethenteron reissneri (Dybowski, 1869) (Far Eastern brook lamprey) ^[4]
• Lethenteron satoi Sakai, Iwata & Watanabe, 2024 (Fan-tailed brook lamprey) ^[3]

References

1. Van Der Laan, Richard; Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ronald (11 November 2014). "Family-group names of Recent fishes". Zootaxa. 3882 (1): 1–230. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1 . PMID   25543675.
2. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Lethenteron". FishBase . November 2025 version.
3. Harumi Sakai, Akihisa Iwata, Katsutoshi Watanabe & Akira Goto (2024). Taxonomic re-examination of Japanese brook lampreys of the genus Lethenteron with descriptions of two new species, Lethenteron satoi sp. nov. and Lethenteron hattai sp. nov., and re-description of Lethenteron mitsukurii. Ichthyological Research 72, 289–319. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10228-024-00997-7
4. Renaud, C.; Naseka, A. (2015). "Redescription of the Far Eastern brook lamprey Lethenteron reissneri (Dybowski, 1869) (Petromyzontidae)". ZooKeys (506): 75–93. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.506.9817 . PMC   4467182 . PMID   26085795.