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Lampetra ayresii (Günther, 1870)

Western river lamprey
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Common names: River lamprey, River lamprey, Western river lamprey
Occurrence: native
Salinity: freshwater
Abundance: fairly common (chances are about 50%) | Ref: Jordan, D.S. and E.C. Starks, 1895
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Uses: no uses
Comments: Ranges south to the Sacramento River (Ref. 1998) and San Fransisco Bay, central California (Ref. 27436, 96339, 43939). Not rare in Puget Sound, Washington, in 1895 (Ref. 28609). ): Pacific Ocean Basin: Duwamish River estuary, Puyallup River, Lake Washington, and Lake Sammamish (Washington); Yaquina Bay and Columbia River (Oregon); Mill Creek, Sacramento, Middle, and San Joaquin rivers, and San Pablo and San Francisco bays (California) (Ref.89241). Also Ref. 276, 4925, 6885, 10016. Status of threat: vulnerable. Criteria: 1,4 (http://fisc.er.usgs.gov/afs/) (Ref. 81264).
National Checklist:
Country Information: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/geos/us.html
National Fisheries Authority: http://www.nmfs.gov
Occurrences: Occurrences Point map
Main Ref: Page, L.M. and B.M. Burr, 1991
National Database:

Common names from other countries

Classification / Names Noms communs | Synonymes | Catalog of Fishes(Genre, Espèce) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa

> Petromyzontiformes (Lampreys) > Petromyzontidae (Northern lampreys) > Lampetrinae
Etymology: Lampetra: lambo (L.), to lick; petra (Gr.), rock or stone, referring to their suctorial behavior (adults attach to rocks during nest building and mating). (See ETYFish);  ayresii: In honor of physician-ichthyologist William O. Ayres (1817-1887), founding member of the California Academy of Sciences, who described this species in 1855 but used a preoccupied name (Petromyzon plumbeus). (See ETYFish).
  More on author: Günther.

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Écologie


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