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Entosphenus tridentatus (Pacific lamprey; Tridentate lamprey; Three-toothed lamprey; Sea lamprey; Pacific three-toothed lamprey)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The Pacific lamprey (Entosphenus tridentatus or Lampetra tridentata) is an anadromous parasitic lamprey from the Pacific Coast of North America, and Asia. It is also a member of the Petromyzontidae family. The Pacific lamprey is also known as the Three Tooth lamprey and the Tridentate lamprey.
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Attributes

Adult Length [1]  30 inches (76 cm)
Brood Dispersal [1]  Hidden
Brood Egg Substrate [1]  Lithophils (gravel-sand)
Brood Guarder [1]  No
Litter Size [2]  238,400
Maximum Longevity [2]  9 years
Migration [3]  Anadromous
Adult Weight [2]  275 grams
Female Maturity [2]  5 years

Protected Areas

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Fratercula corniculata (Horned Puffin)[6]
Gadus macrocephalus (Pacific cod)[5]
Mirounga angustirostris (Northern Elephant Seal)[7]
Sebastes borealis (Black-throated rock-fish)[5]

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Citations

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1Frimpong, E.A., and P. L. Angermeier. 2009. FishTraits: a database of ecological and life-history traits of freshwater fishes of the United States. Fisheries 34:487-495.
2de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
3Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
4Feeding and Prey of Pacific Lamprey in Coastal Waters of the Western North Pacific, Alexei Orlov, Richard Beamish, Andrei Vinnikov, Dmitry Pelenev, American Fisheries Society Symposium 69, 2009
5Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
6Breeding ecology of Horned Puffins (Fratercula corniculata) in Alaska: annual variation and effects of El Niño, A.M.A. Harding, J.F. Piatt, and K.C. Hamer, Can. J. Zool. 81: 1004–1013 (2003)
7Mirounga angustirostris, Brent S. Stewart and Harriet R. Huber, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 449, pp. 1-10 (1993)
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