Минога

Lamprey – a representative of the group of lower vertebrates belonging to cyclostomes class. In lampreys have one unit – the family of minogoobraznye lamprey. In the family, there are four dozen species such as river and sea. Lamprey food fish.
About lampreys

Appearance lamprey

Minogue myriad, but you can distinguish lampreys 2 forms: the river and the sea. Outwardly, the two forms are not very different, but they vary in size and color.

At the river lamprey cylindrical shape of the body and without fins. The spawning period in female lamprey grows anal fin. The spawning period at all lampreys blunt teeth and dorsal fins are higher. The back is painted black, sides silvery, and belly white.

In lampreys interesting structure of the mouth. On the upper jaw on the edges there are a couple of sharp teeth, and at the bottom of about 7. In one lip is located on the 4 – 13 randomly scattered teeth. Mouth sea lamprey is identical to the river.

Sea lamprey also have a cylindrical body. At the oral funnel has a fringed edge of the funnel itself round. The front part of the body is about 7 gill openings. Color in different waters of different.

Larvae lamprey reaches a length of 8 – 15 cm, in order to achieve such dimensions it requires between 4 – 6 s. In transition lamprey maximum size of 48 cm and a weight of up to 150 grams. Large lamprey grow up to 33 cm, the small to 25 cm. Sea lamprey grow up to 1.2 meters and reach a weight of 2.5 kg.
habitat

The river forms distributed in the area of ​​the Baltic Sea and the northern rivers. Some individuals live at a depth of about 100 meters.

Sea lamprey inhabits coastal waters and is found from Gibraltar to the coasts of Iceland and the White Sea. In the Black Sea lamprey does not dwell. The larvae of the lamprey live in rivers, and just growing up, they swim away to live in the sea.
Power lamprey

Lamprey – a fish parasite, as it can be attributed to predators. Lamprey larvae eat algae, crustaceans and various worms.

Adult lamprey feeds about freshened sea coast, in rivers flowing into them. This fish feeds on the blood of different fish, but in its stomach and found the same scales, meat, bones, fish, hearts (herring sprats). Lamprey accompanies flocks sprat, herring, cod, mackerel and Krayushki, as well as salmon. River lampreys attach themselves to the roach, brown trout, whitefish and Shiga.

Sea lamprey, as well as the river is an external parasite and feeds on the blood of these fish like flounder, cod, herring and mackerel. We lamprey is a special enzyme that it produces for the blood of its victims are not folded. Victim lamprey dies of a large loss of blood, either from infection.

For a man as lamprey bite is dangerous, as it is likely infected.
Reproduction lamprey

Sexual maturity is reached lamprey with a body length of 18 to 25 cm, but sometimes with a size of about 13 cm. The river lamprey spawn directly into the river, and the sea leaves the sea and goes up the river to spawn. When you picked up along the river lamprey varies. She no longer work salivary glands, increasing fins and shortened the distance between them; tupeyut teeth; females grow anal fin in males and genital papilla.

Spawn in May and June, at a temperature of 10 to 14 degrees Celsius. They spawn in the shallows of stone. Lays from 4 to 40 thousand. Eggs. They spawn groups: one female and 6 male. Eggs oval sizes up to 1 millimeter. Lamprey spawn only once in his life, after the die.

Minogue also called peskroykoy, as she likes to dig in the ground, hiding there. Digs lamprey into the soil when the lengths of up to 6 millimeters.

Lamprey is fatal to fish, to which it clings. Meat lamprey is considered a delicacy.
About catching lamprey hands

Catch lamprey based Zavidovo will not work, but catching other interesting predator you can always.