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lamprey (noun): A type of jawless fish characterized by a toothed, funnel-like sucking mouth. Lampreys are often considered primitive in evolutionary terms and are known for attaching to and feeding on other fish
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And be sure the lampreys are not overcooked.
Lampreys can not jump that high.
An eel feeding on lampreys swallows them whole.
Lampreys are fishes that look like eels.
They were classically regarded as the ancestors of lampreys.
They fed lampreys like my cook does eels.
That passed overhead like other lampreys did.
Lampreys have long been used as food for humans.
The sexes are separate in lampreys and fertilization is external.
Lampreys have a unique life cycle.
Order of jawless fishes such as lampreys and hagfish.
Adult lampreys spawn in rivers and then die.
The larvae differ drastically in morphology to the adult lampreys.
Sea lampreys have a very unique life cycle.
The position of lampreys is ambiguous.
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Lampreys do not attack people.
Together hagfish and lampreys are the sister group to vertebrates.
Lampreys feed also on dead fish and decomposing flesh.
Cats detect lampreys by exploding.
Lampreys are the only extant vertebrate to have four eyes.
Several factors affected the vulnerability of native lampreys to chemicals.
Lampreys are not fish in the strict sense of the term.
Supraspinal control of locomotion in lampreys.
Lampreys had to be imported from abroad to fill the pie.
Many environmental conditions influence the distribution of sea lampreys.
Sea lampreys are parasitic pests.
So researchers needed to know how silver lampreys responded to bile.
Lampreys can be both found in freshwater rivers and seas.
Fertilization in lampreys is external.
The lampreys also feed on dead fish and decaying meat.
During this migration large numbers of lampreys are caught in traps by fishermen.
Both lampreys and hagfish possess a fully developed medulla oblongata.
During the spawning time adult brook lampreys do not feed.
Most lampreys are not parasitic and do not benefit from fish.
It is now believed that the hagfish neuroanatomy is similar to that of lampreys.
Adult sea lampreys swim upstream to spawn and then die.
But this does not mean that our ancestors were once lampreys.
Freshwater parasitic lampreys spend their whole lives in freshwater as well.
Southern topeyed lampreys.
River lampreys migrate upstream from the sea in autumn or winter.
Adults can be distinguished from other lampreys by a single dorsal fin.
The pTRG is a region that was shown to be essential to respiratory rhythmogenesis in lampreys.
Lampreys can often leave marks that can be misinterpreted for either.
He was said to have discovered the symbiotic relationship between lampreys and salmon.
The eggs of adult lampreys are preyed on by various species of fish and crayfish.
Lampetra lamottenii may be the most suitable host among the lampreys.
Evolutionary biologists have discovered that lampreys are crucial in the history of life.
Macrophages play an important role in iron metabolism in early larval life of lampreys.
Lampreys from different lakes varied considerably in the amount of spatial differentiation evident.
The influence of environmental variables on the density of larval lampreys in different seasons.
