Animalia > Chordata > Petromyzonti > Petromyzontiformes > Petromyzontidae > Lampetra > Lampetra ayresii

Lampetra ayresii (Parasitic river lamprey; River lamprey; Western brook lamprey; Western lamprey)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Lampetra ayresii is a species of lamprey in the family Petromyzontidae. It is also called the river lamprey or western river lamprey. Found in the eastern pacific from Tee Harbor, Juneau in Alaska to Sacramento-San Joaquin drainage in California, USA.
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Attributes

Adult Length [1]  12 inches (31 cm)
Litter Size [3]  11,400
Maximum Longevity [3]  7 years
Migration [2]  Anadromous
Diet [2]  Planktivore, Carnivore (Invertebrates)
Female Maturity [3]  6 years

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve II 366714 British Columbia, Canada
Mount Arrowsmith Biosphere Reserve 293047 British Columbia, Canada  
Olympic Biosphere Reserve II 922805 Washington, United States
Pacific Rim National Park Reserve II 137900 British Columbia, Canada
Point Reyes National Seashore II 27068 California, United States

Prey / Diet

Clupea pallasii (Pacific herring)[4]
Engraulis mordax (Californian anchoveta)[4]
Oncorhynchus kisutch (coho salmon or silver salmon)[4]
Oncorhynchus nerka (sockeye salmon or kokanee)[4]

Predators

Cerorhinca monocerata (Rhinoceros Auklet)[4]
Larus glaucescens (Glaucous-winged Gull)[4]
Uria aalge (Common Murre)[4]

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

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.
♦ 2Myers, 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
♦ 3de 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
♦ 4Jorrit 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