Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
Author
Love, Milton S.
0000-0003-0981-0061
love@lifesci.ucsb.edu
Author
Bizzarro, Joseph J.
0000-0002-2412-9357
joe.bizzarro@noaa.gov
Author
Cornthwaite, Maria
0000-0002-1528-3272
maria.cornthwaite@dfo-mpo.gc.ca
Author
Frable, Benjamin W.
0000-0003-4525-0671
bfrable@ucsd.edu
Author
Maslenikov, Katherine P.
0000-0003-0981-0061
love@lifesci.ucsb.edu
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Zootaxa
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Entosphenus tridentatus
(Richardson, 1837)
.
Pacific Lamprey
. To
85 cm
(
33.5 in
) TL (
Orlov
et al.
2008b
). Honshu (
Orlov
et al.
2008b
), and
Hokkaido
,
Japan
(Nakabo in
Nakabo 2002
); eastern Chukchi Sea (Mecklenburg
et al.
2002), and Bering Sea to Punta Canoas, northern
Baja California
(
Miller and Lea 1972
), and likely to Isla ClariĆ³n, and Islas Revillagigedo,
Mexico
(
Renaud 2008
). Southernmost freshwater occurrence is currently in the Big Sur River, central California (
Reid and Goodman 2016
). Depth: at sea, near surface to
1,508 m
(
4,946 ft
) (min.:
Eschmeyer and Herald 1983
; max.:
Hoff and Britt 2003
). Anadromous, may be found at sea, often far offshore, any time of the year. Previously as
Lampetra tridentata
(Richardson, 1836)
. The author of the species description is sometimes given as Gairdner, or Gairdner in Richardson, but authorship evidently is correct as Richardson, or Richardson (ex Gairdner) (
Eschmeyer 1998
and online edition
8 November 2004
).