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lamprey: References & Edit History

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Article History

Type Description Contributor Date
Invalidated site: New Hampshire Public Television - Wildlife Journal Junior - Agnatha. Aug 06, 2026
Add new Web site: Digital Commons At University of Nebraska - Lincoln - Anatomy of the lamprey ear: morphological evidence for occurrence of horizontal semicircular ducts in the labyrinth of Petromyzon marinus (PDF). Jan 30, 2026
Add new Web site: Cell Press - Current Biology - Phylogenetics and the Cenozoic radiation of lampreys. Nov 06, 2025
Add new Web site: Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations - FAO Species Catalogue of Lampreys of the World (PDF). Sep 04, 2025
Add new Web site: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service - A Note on Lampreys. Apr 17, 2025
Add new Web site: PNAS - Lamprey immunity is far from primitive. Jan 07, 2025
Added cross-references. Sep 20, 2024
Add new Web site: Nature Communications - The rise of predation in Jurassic lampreys. Aug 14, 2024
Add new Web site: Frontiers - Lampreys and spinal cord regeneration: �a very special claim on the interest of zoologists,� 1830s-present. May 21, 2024
Add new Web site: Canadian Museum of Nature - Lampreys. Apr 12, 2024
Add new Web site: Department of Conservation - Lamprey. Sep 09, 2023
Add new Web site: Indiana State Government - Indiana Division of Fish and Wildlife�s Animal Information Series - Lampreys. Jul 11, 2023
Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Lamprey: a model for vertebrate evolutionary research. Feb 25, 2023
Add new Web site: A-Z Animals - Lamprey Fish. Sep 15, 2022
Add new Web site: Scottish Natural Heritage - Lamprey. Feb 12, 2019
Add new Web site: National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research - Lamprey. Aug 26, 2016
Add new Web site: New Hampshire Public Television - Wildlife Journal Junior - Agnatha. Dec 31, 2015
Add new Web site: Fact Monster - Science - Lamprey. Sep 08, 2011
Added image of lamprey. May 25, 2011
Media added. Jun 16, 2010
Article revised and updated. Oct 08, 2008
Added new Web site: How Stuff Works - Animals - Lamprey. May 26, 2008
Added new Web site: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand - Lamprey. May 14, 2007
Added new Web site: University of California, Berkeley: Museum of Paleontology - Lampreys. Jun 28, 2006
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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