The sea lamprey is an unknown creature. Most people are not informed, but with this report you will learn lots.
Sea lamprey attach onto fish for about eighteen months. Sea lamprey don’t eat flesh, it drills it out with it’s horny tongue because it doesn’t have teeth. They use their sucking mouth to climb up rocks.
When a sea lamprey’s life begins it’s very colourful, then when it gets older, it goes an ugly brown colour and is covered in scales. If there was an ugliest fish award, it would win! It has very slimy skin.
Some people class it the vampire from the sea because it has been known to sometimes attack humans, but it’s main prey are fish.
The lamprey’s life cycle is very normal surprisingly and here’s a diagram of it:
When the lamprey is first born it’s bright and colourful, but for that time it stays in the mud. It’s average length is four hundred and fifty and it weighs 1.4 kgs. It has paired fins.
The Maori name is Kanakana and the latin name is Geotria Australias.
Now you know lots about the “Dracula from the Deep”, sea lamprey.
Sea lamprey attach onto fish for about eighteen months. Sea lamprey don’t eat flesh, it drills it out with it’s horny tongue because it doesn’t have teeth. They use their sucking mouth to climb up rocks.
When a sea lamprey’s life begins it’s very colourful, then when it gets older, it goes an ugly brown colour and is covered in scales. If there was an ugliest fish award, it would win! It has very slimy skin.
Some people class it the vampire from the sea because it has been known to sometimes attack humans, but it’s main prey are fish.
The lamprey’s life cycle is very normal surprisingly and here’s a diagram of it:
When the lamprey is first born it’s bright and colourful, but for that time it stays in the mud. It’s average length is four hundred and fifty and it weighs 1.4 kgs. It has paired fins.
The Maori name is Kanakana and the latin name is Geotria Australias.
Now you know lots about the “Dracula from the Deep”, sea lamprey.