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Petromyzontidae
Mexican lamprey
Tetrapleurodon spadiceus
Blood feeding adults spawn upstream then die
- Brown
- Tropical
- Northern Hemisphere
- Regional distribution
- Freshwater fish
- North America
- Anguilliform
- Medium
- Tropical fish
Brown
Tropical
Regional distribution
Anguilliform
MediumMexican lamprey is known from North America as a freshwater fish. It occurs in freshwater habitats.
- Class
- Lampreys
- Order
- Lampreys
- Family
- Petromyzontidae
- Genus
- Tetrapleurodon
- Maximum length
- 31 cm
- Water
- Freshwater
- Body shape
- anguilliform
- Distribution
- North America: Celio, Duero and Lerma rivers and Lake Chapala, Mexico.
- Conservation status
- CRCritically Endangered
Class
Family
Conservation status
