Petromyzon marinus

Scientific name:

Petromyzon marinus

Threat level:

Least concern

Authority:

Linnaeus, 1758

Version:

3.1

Year assessed:

2008

Assessor(s):

Freyhof, J. & Kottelat, M.

Evaluator(s):

Bogutskaya, N., & Smith, K. (IUCN Freshwater Biodiversity Unit)

Justification:

Generally rare, but widespread. Populations in central and western Europe, which had declined because of pollution problems, have been recovering since the 1980s.

Geographic ranges:

• Albania (Native)
• Algeria (Native)
• Belgium (Native)
• Bosnia and Herzegovina (Native)
• Canada (Native)
• Croatia (Native)
• Czech Republic (Native)
• Denmark (Native)
• Estonia (Native)
• Faroe Islands (Native)
• Finland (Native)
• France (Native)
• Germany (Native)
• Gibraltar (Native)
• Greece (Native)
• Greenland (Native)
• Guernsey (Native)
• Iceland (Native)
• Ireland (Native)
• Isle Of Man (Native)
• Italy (Native)
• Jersey (Native)
• Latvia (Native)
• Lithuania (Native)
• Luxembourg (Native)
• Monaco (Native)
• Montenegro (Native)
• Morocco (Native)
• Netherlands (Native)
• Norway (Native)
• Poland (Native)
• Portugal (Native)
• Russian Federation (Native)
• Saint Pierre and Miquelon (Native)
• Serbia (Native)
• Slovakia (Native)
• Slovenia (Native)
• Spain (Native)
• Sweden (Native)
• Switzerland (Native)
• Tunisia (Native)
• United Kingdom (Native)
• United States (Native)

Population trend:

Unknown

Ecosystems

• Freshwater

List of habitats:

• Wetlands (inland)
• Permanent Rivers/Streams/Creeks (includes waterfalls)

• Hardisty. 1986. in: Holcík, J. (ed.) The freshwater fishes of Europe. 1, Part I. Petromyzontiformes. Aula, Wiesbaden.
• Kottelat, M. and Freyhof, J. 2007. Handbook of European Freshwater Fishes. Publications Kottelat, Cornol, Switzerland.
• Potter, I.C. and Osborne, T.S. 1975. The systematics of British larval lampreys.
• Rodríguez-Muñoz, R., Waldman, J.R., Grunwald, C., Roy, N.K. and Wirgin, I. 2004. Absence of shared mitochondrial DNA haplotypes between sea lamprey from North American and Spanish rivers.