Sea lamprey
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Sea lamprey, Petromyzon marinus
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Where are they found? Atlantic Ocean, North America ...
The sea lamprey, Petromyzon marinus (Linnaeus, 1758), aka great sea lamprey, lake lamprey, lamprey, or lamprey eel, has a distinctive eel-like body, but unlike the eel its skeleton is made of cartilage rather than bone. Sea lampreys grow up to 1.
Sea lamprey
The sea lamprey (Petromyzon marinus) is a parasitic lamprey found on the Atlantic coasts of Europe and North America, in the western Mediterranean Sea, and in the Great Lakes.
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Discussion The adult Sea Lamprey is parasitic. The larvae live on the bottom in silt and mud for up to 5 years.
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It was a silver fish with black fins and a black stripe on its spine. By the 1940's its numbers were greatly reduced due to over fishing. Predation from an introduced species, the sea lamprey, ...
 See also: Lamprey, Trout, Lake Trout, Salmon, Perch
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