Northern brook lamprey

Northern brook lamprey
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Petromyzontida
Order: Petromyzontiformes
Family: Petromyzontidae
Genus: Ichthyomyzon
Species:
I. fossor
Binomial name
Ichthyomyzon fossor
Reighard and Cummins, 1916
Synonyms[2][3]
  • Ammocoetes unicolor DeKay 1842
  • Ammocoetes borealis Agassiz 1850
  • Reighardina fossor (Reighard & Cummins 1916)

The northern brook lamprey (Ichthyomyzon fossor) is a freshwater fish in the family Petromyzontidae. It is closely related to the silver lamprey (I. unicuspis) and may represent an ecotype of a single species with I. unicuspis.[4]

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  2. ^ 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. S2CID 31014657.
  3. ^ Froese, R.; Pauly, D. (2017). "Petromyzontidae". FishBase version (02/2017). Retrieved 18 May 2017.
  4. ^ Ren, Jianfeng; Buchinger, Tyler; Pu, Jiafei; Jia, Liang; Li, Weiming (16 October 2014). "Complete mitochondrial genomes of paired species northern brook lamprey ( Ichthyomyzon fossor ) and silver lamprey ( I. unicuspis )". Mitochondrial DNA. 27 (3): 1862–1863. doi:10.3109/19401736.2014.971261. PMID 25319286. S2CID 207726883.