lampreys in English

noun
1
an eellike aquatic jawless vertebrate that has a sucker mouth with horny teeth and a rasping tongue. The adult is often parasitic, attaching itself to other fish and sucking their blood.
These conditions support a rich diversity of invertebrate life and important game fisheries, such as brown trout, brook lamprey , salmon, crayfish, and otter.
noun
    lamprey eellamper eel

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1. Agnatha are jawless fish. Lampreys and hagfish are in this class

2. They're kind of like eels or hagfish or lampreys, but different.

3. 21 The gill openings were arranged in an oblique line as in lampreys.

4. BIO 330 • So as we mentioned earlier, and lampreys are actually mostly, lampreys Apieces are parasitic and ecto parasites, meaning external parasites of fishes, as well as large animals by in animals such as whales

5. 30 Henry I of England dies of food poisoning from a surfeit of lampreys at St.

6. Finger said these chemosensory cells are found in most aquatic vertebrates, including sharks, bony fish and lampreys.

7. 19 The swarming lampreys consume not only dead or sickly fish but set upon otherwise healthy ones.

8. Agnatha - superclass of eel-shaped chordates lacking jaws and pelvic fins: lampreys; hagfishes; some extinct forms superclass Agnatha Craniata,

9. In 1530 the prior of Llanthony at Gloucester sent "cheise carp and baked lampreys" to Henry VIII at Windsor.

10. In skeleton: General features Paired Appendages are not found in ancestral vertebrates and are not present in the modern cyclostomes (e.g., lampreys, hagfishes)

11. Craniates (Craniata) are a group of chordates that includes hagfish, lampreys, and jawed vertebrates such as amphibians, birds, reptiles, mammals, and fishes

12. Agnathan, (superclass Agnatha), any member of the group of primitive jawless fishes that includes the lampreys (order Petromyzoniformes), hagfishes (order Myxiniformes), and several extinct groups.

13. Agnatha: 1 n superclass of eel-shaped chordates lacking jaws and pelvic fins: lampreys; hagfishes; some extinct forms Synonyms: superclass Agnatha Type of: class (biology) a …

14. Superclass Agnatha is made up of living and extinct forms. In older classifications, extant forms—that is, the lampreys and hagfishes— were grouped together as Cyclostomata (round mouth)

15. Other articles where Appendage is discussed: skeleton: General features: Paired Appendages are not found in ancestral vertebrates and are not present in the modern cyclostomes (e.g., lampreys, hagfishes)

16. In the most primitive vertebrates, the hagfish and lampreys, the kidney is unusually simple: it consists of a row of nephrons, each emptying directly into the archinephric duct.

17. The morphology of the opisthonephric kidney of young adult anadromous sea lampreys, Petromyzon marinus L., was examined at regular intervals during the gradual acclimation of these recently metamorphosed individuals to full-strength seawater.

18. Chordates (Chordata) are a group of animals that includes vertebrates, tunicates, lancelets. Of these, the vertebrates—lampreys, mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles, and fishes—are the most familiar and are the group to which humans belong.

19. Upstream migration is most important for populations of anadromous fish and lamprey species like Salmo salar, sea lampreys Petromyzon marinus and Lampetra fluviatilis or some sturgeons as Acipenser sturio because of their need for periodical (optimally annual) long-distance migrations.

20. Anadromous Sentence Examples Lampreys, sticklebacks, cattoids, sturgeons - the white sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus) is commonly known as the "Oregon sturgeon" - trout and salmon are the principal Anadromous fish, the salmon and trout being the most important economically. …

21. ‘In the complementary category of the protostomes, which includes annelids and arthropods, the Blastopore develops into the mouth.’ ‘One group, including amphioxus, lampreys, sturgeons and amphibians, displays the primitive condition, with holoblastic eggs and involution of the endoderm through a Blastopore.’

22. Baitfish includes all forms of minnows; suckers, chubs, Fallfish, lampreys; Gizzard Shad 8 inches or less taken from inland ponds, lakes or reservoirs; and all forms of darters, killifishes and stonecats (except those listed as threatened or endangered species).Legally taken gamefish may be used as bait

23. Baitfish includes all forms of minnows; suckers, chubs, Fallfish, lampreys; Gizzard Shad 8 inches or less taken from inland ponds, lakes or reservoirs; and all forms of darters, killifishes and stonecats (except those listed as threatened or endangered species).Legally taken gamefish may be used as bait