Animalia > Chordata > Petromyzonti > Petromyzontiformes > Petromyzontidae > Ichthyomyzon > Ichthyomyzon castaneus

Ichthyomyzon castaneus (Chestnut lamprey)

Synonyms: Ichthyomyzon hirudo
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Wikipedia Abstract

The chestnut lamprey (Ichthyomyzon castaneus) is a species of lamprey.
View Wikipedia Record: Ichthyomyzon castaneus

Attributes

Adult Length [1]  15 inches (38 cm)
Brood Dispersal [1]  Hidden
Brood Egg Substrate [1]  Lithophils (rock-gravel)
Brood Guarder [1]  No
Litter Size [2]  20,000
Maximum Longevity [2]  8 years
Female Maturity [2]  6 years

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 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
♦ 3Jorrit 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.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0