Petromyzontidae
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Name (Hebrew)
צמדים
Name (Latin)
Petromyzontidae
Other forms of name
Northern lampreys
nne Petromyzonidae
Petromyzontids
See Also From tracing topical name
Lampreys
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Wikidata:
Q839661
Library of congress:
sh 85100476
Sources of Information
- Common and sci. names of fishes from the U.S. and Canada, 1991:p. 11 (Petromyzontidae--lampreys. Order Petromyzontiformes)
- Nelson, J.S. Fishes of the world, c1994:p. 30 (Family Petromyzontidae (Petromyzonidae)--lampreys. Order Petromyzontiformes; petromyzontids. Four subfamilies: Petromyzontinae, Geotriinae, Mordaciinae, Mayomyzontinae (known only from fossils))
- Catalog of fishes, via WWW, June 6, 2003:classification (Petromyzontidae (lampreys), Order Petromyzontiformes. Three subfamilies: Petromyzontinae, Geotriinae, Mordaciinae)
- Encyc. of fishes, 1995:p. 24 (Petromyzontidae, Northern lampreys. Order Petromyzontiformes)
- ITIS, via WWW, June 6, 2003(Family Petromyzontidae -- lampreys. Order Petromyzontiformes)
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Lampreys
Alexander Francis Lydon (1836-1917), Public domain
File:Lampetra fluviatilis.jpg
M.Buschmann, CC BY-SA 3.0
File:Petromyzon marinus2.jpg
Anonymous, Public domain
File:Sea Lamprey fish.jpg
Photo Credit: Great Lakes Fishery Commission, Public domain
Wikipedia description:
Petromyzontidae are a family of lampreys native to the Northern Hemisphere, comprising the vast majority of living lampreys. Petromyzontids have the highest number of chromosomes (164–174) among vertebrates.
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