Dionisia Lahille 1915 non Landau Chabaud, Miltgen & Baccam 1980
Exomegas Gill 1883 non Burmeister 1868
Macrophthalmia Plate 1897
Neomordacia Castelnau 1872
Thysanochilus Troschel 1857 non Butler 1878 non non Falc. 1839
Velasia Gray 1853
Yarra Castelnau 1872 non Krapp-Schickel 2000
Species synonymy
Velasia chilensis Gray 1851
Thysanochilus valdivianus Philippi 1857
Ammocoetes caeruleus Philippi 1858
Chilopterus caeruleus (Philippi 1857)
Ammocoetes landbecki Philippi 1858
Chilopterus landbecki (Philippi 1857)
Exomegas macrostomus (Burmeister 1868)
Petromyzon fonki Philippi 1865
Petromyzon macrostomus Burmeister 1868
Yarra singularis Castelnau 1872
Neomordacia howittii Castelnau 1872
Geotria allporti Günther 1872
Velasia stenostomus Ogilby 1896
Macrophthalmia chilensis Plate 1897
Geotria macrostoma f. gallegensis Smitt 1901
Geotria macrostoma gallegensis (Smitt 1901)
Geotria gallegensis (Smitt 1901)
Geotria saccifera Regan 1911
Dionisia patagonica Lahille 1915
The pouched lamprey (Geotria australis), also known as the piharau[4] in the North Island, korokoro,[5]kanakana[6] in the South Island, or wide-mouthed lamprey, is a species in the genus Geotria, which is the only genus in the family Geotriidae.[7] The second species in the genus is the Argentinian lamprey (Geotria macrostoma), which was revalidated as a separate species in 2020. The pouched lamprey is native to the southern hemisphere. It spends the early part of its life in fresh water, migrating to the sea as an adult, and returning to fresh water to spawn and die.
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^Roberts, Clive; Stewart, A. L.; Struthers, Carl D.; Barker, Jeremy; Kortet, Salme; Freeborn, Michelle (2015). The fishes of New Zealand. Vol. 2. Wellington, New Zealand: Te Papa Press. p. 36. ISBN9780994104168. OCLC908128805.