Petromyzontiformes

Petromyzontiformes sp.

Taxonavigation[edit]

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Cladus: Craniata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Classis: Cyclostomata
Ordo: Petromyzontiformes
Familiae (3 + †1): Geotriidae – †Mayomyzontidae – Mordaciidae – Petromyzontidae
Genera incertae sedis: †Hardistiella – †Priscomyzon

Pacific Lamprey

Name[edit]

Petromyzontiformes Berg, 1940

References[edit]

Primary references[edit]

Berg, L.S. 1940. Sistema ryboobraznykh i ryb, nyne zhivushchikh i iskopaemykh [Classification of fishes, both recent and fossil]. Trudy Zoologicheskogo instituta Akademiia nauk Soiuza Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik [Proceedings of the Zoological Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences] 5: 87–517. [in Russian, with complete English translation]

Additional references[edit]

Bardack, D. & Zangerl, R. 1971. Lampreys in the fossil record. pp. 67–84 in Hardisty, M.W. & Potter, I.C. (eds.). The Biology of Lampreys. Volume 1. Academic Press: London and New York. xiv + 423 p. ISBN 978-0123248015 Reference page.
Gill, H.S., Renaud, C.B., Chapleau, F., Mayden, R.L. & Potter, I.C. 2003. Phylogeny of living parasitic lampreys (Petromyzontiformes) based on morphological data. Copeia 2003(4): 687–703. DOI: 10.1643/IA02-085.1 Reference page.
Lang, N.J., Poe, K.J., Renaud, C.B., Gill, H.S., Potter, I.C., Freyhof, J., Naseka, A.M., Cochran, P., Pérex, H.E., Habit, E.M., Kuhajda, B.R., Neely, D.A., Reshetnikov, Y.S., Salnikov, V.B., Stoumboudi, M.Th. & Mayden, R.L. 2009. Novel Relationships among Lampreys (Petromyzontiformes) Revealed by a Taxonomically Comprehensive Molecular Data Set. American Fisheries Society Symposium Reference page.
Renaud, C.B. 2011. Lampreys of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of lamprey species known to date. FAO Species Catalogue for Fishery Purposes 5: vi + 109. Full article (PDF) Reference page.

Links[edit]

Petromyzontiformes in the World Register of Marine Species

Vernacular names[edit]

беларуская: Міногі
български: Миногоподобни
Deutsch: Lampreten, Neunaugen
English: lampreys
español: Petromizontiformes
suomi: Nahkiaiskalat
македонски: Змиулки
Nederlands: lampreien, negenogen, prikken
polski: Minogokształtne,minogi
svenska: Nejonögon

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