European lamprey

“The color is yellowish marked with brown. Like the sharks and rays is it without an air bladder; to prevent itself from being carried about by currents of water it prefquently attackes itself to stones by the mouth, whence it is called the Stone-sucker.” — Goodrich, 1859

Keywords

fish, lamprey, pisces, european, sucker, stone, teleostea

Galleries

Lampreys

Source

S. G. Goodrich Animal Kingdom Illustrated Vol 2 (New York, NY: Derby & Jackson, 1859)

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