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PLOS ONE
Volume 16, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0250601
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- New Zealand Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment (MBIE) [CO1X1615]
- IEASA (Integracion Energetica Argentina)
- Agencia Nacional de la Promocion de la Ciencia y la Tecnologia (ANPCyT, Argentina) [PICT2015-3490]
- CONICET (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas)
- MNHN (Paris)
- Canadian Museum of Nature
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Recent studies suggest there may be a second Geotria species in South America, Geotria macrostoma, distinguished from G. australis by differences in dentition, oral papillae, fimbriae counts, coloration, body depth, and condition factor. Further research is needed to understand the ecology and conservation needs of G. macrostoma.
The pouched lamprey, Geotria australis Gray, 1851, has long been considered monotypic in the Geotriidae family with a wide southern temperate distribution across Australasia and South America. Recent studies have provided molecular and morphological evidence for a second Geotria species in South America; Geotria macrostoma (Burmeister, 1868). The aim of this study was to determine morphometric and physical characteristics of adult G. macrostoma that further differentiate this re-instated species of Geotriidae from G. australis. The diagnostic features discriminating immature adult G. macrostoma from G. australis when entering fresh water, are distinct differences in dentition, oral papillae and fimbriae counts and differences in coloration. In addition, G. macrostoma display greater growth of the prebranchial region and oral disc and has a deeper body depth and higher condition factor. All current ecological knowledge of the genus Geotria is based on Australasian populations, which may not be applicable to G. macrostoma. To ensure the conservation and protection of the Patagonian lamprey as a re-identified species, further investigations are needed to understand its life history, biology and ecology throughout its range.
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