Lamprey Eel Teeth
The lamprey is an eel like creature that attacks its prey by attaching to it with circular rows of fairly nasty looking teeth.
Lamprey eel teeth. Lampreys sometimes also called inaccurately lamprey eels are an ancient extant lineage of jawless fish of the order petromyzontiformes placed in the superclass. The sea lamprey has an eel like body without paired fins. Its mouth is jawless round and sucker like and as wide or wider than the head. Sharp teeth are arranged in.
Sea lampreys petromyzon marinus linnaeus 1758 aka great sea lampreys lake lampreys lampreys or lamprey eels have a distinctive eel. What is a sea lamprey. The sea lamprey petromyzon marinus is one of 31 species of lamprey found throughout the world and one of four lamprey species found in the. Lamprey is the common name for elongated eel like jawless fish comprising the family petromyzontidae characterized by a primitive vertebrae made of cartilage.
About one of the most primitive vertebrates still alive today the river lamprey is a small eel like fish with a toothed sucker mouth. It uses this sucker to attach. To quote the great austin powers when provided floss to escape being lowered into a tank of ill tempered sea bass. Ok i get it.
I have bad teeth sure its.