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lamprey eel

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Noun1.lamprey eellamprey eel - primitive eellike freshwater or anadromous cyclostome having round sucking mouth with a rasping tongue
lamper eel, lamprey
agnathan, jawless fish, jawless vertebrate - eel-shaped vertebrate without jaws or paired appendages including the cyclostomes and some extinct forms
family Petromyzontidae, Petromyzontidae - lampreys
Petromyzon marinus, sea lamprey - large anadromous lamprey sometimes used as food; destructive of native fish fauna in the Great Lakes


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Many researchers have relied on simpler vertebrate models, particularly the lamprey eel, to explain how an ensemble of spinal neural elements can elicit rhythmic motor patterns in the absence of external feedback (see recent reviews (24,25)).
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Wildlife managers in the Pacific Northwest have prevented normative lamprey eels from migrating into the Columbia River basin by using electric barriers.
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