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What is a lamprey?

What is a lamprey? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Any long slender primitive eel-like freshwater and saltwater fish of the Petromyzontidae family, having a sucking mouth with rasping teeth but no jaw.
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Other commonly eaten seafoods include sardines, salmon, sole, sea bass, and hake, as well as eel, squid, octopus, and lamprey.
The river lamprey or lampern, Lampetra fluviatilis, is a smaller fish, and so is the Arctic lamprey, L. japonica.
One form is lamprey like, whereas the other is closer to the more primitive hagfish.
Also in the river are miller's thumbs and lamprey, a prehistoric fish, that buries into silt when young and behaves like a worm.
Litman next plans to look for novel immune genes in jawless vertebrates, such as lamprey and hagfish.
At a larger size, they prey on fish such as smelt, anchovies, lamprey, shad and salmon.

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