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Freshwater Parasitic Lamprey on Vancouver Island and a Theory of the Evolution of the Freshwater Parasitic and Nonparasitic Life History Types

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Evolutionary Biology of Primitive Fishes

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Abstract

Lamprey (Petromyzonidae) are one of the oldest and most successful families of living fishes. Modern lampreys still resemble fossil lampreys which may be as old as 300 million years (Janvier and Lund, 1983). For any family of animals to survive as long as lamprey have, they must possess an extraordinary level of adaptability. One of the major adaptive features of lamprey has been their ability to be anadromous and parasitic, to be parasitic in freshwater and to develop nonparasitic species in freshwater. The least abundant of the three life history types are those with a freshwater parasitic life history. Of the 18 parasitic species, 8 are confined to freshwater (Table I) and 10 are anadromous. Three of the anadromous species are also parasitic in freshwater, only one is considered to be abundant (Table I). In contrast, most of the anadromous species and many of the 22 nonanadromous, nonparasitic species are considered to be relatively common.

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Beamish, R.J. (1985). Freshwater Parasitic Lamprey on Vancouver Island and a Theory of the Evolution of the Freshwater Parasitic and Nonparasitic Life History Types. In: Foreman, R.E., Gorbman, A., Dodd, J.M., Olsson, R. (eds) Evolutionary Biology of Primitive Fishes. NATO ASI Series, vol 103. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-9453-6_8

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