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Ichthyomyzon fossor (Northern brook lamprey)

Synonyms: Ammocoetes borealis (heterotypic); Ammocoetes unicolor
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Wikipedia Abstract

The northern brook lamprey (Ichthyomyzon fossor) is freshwater fish in the family Petromyzontidae which consists of the various species of jawless fishes.
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Attributes

Adult Length [1]  7 inches (17 cm)
Brood Dispersal [1]  Hidden
Brood Egg Substrate [1]  Lithophils (rock-gravel)
Brood Guarder [1]  No
Litter Size [2]  1,350
Maximum Longevity [2]  6 years
Female Maturity [2]  5 years

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore II 8272 Indiana, United States
Niagara Escarpment Biosphere Reserve 470167 Ontario, Canada  
Pukaskwa National Park II 459860 Ontario, Canada
Saint Croix International Historic Site   Maine, United States
Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore II 62563 Michigan, United States

Predators

Oncorhynchus mykiss (redband trout)[3]
Salmo trutta (Brown trout)[3]

Range Map

External References

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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