Eudontomyzon danfordi

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
ANIMALIA	CHORDATA	CEPHALASPIDOMORPHI	PETROMYZONTIFORMES	PETROMYZONTIDAE

Scientific Name:	Eudontomyzon danfordi
Species Authority:	Regan, 1911
Common Name/s: English – Carpathian Brook Lamprey

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:	Least Concern     ver 3.1
Year Published:	2008
Assessor/s:	Freyhof, J. & Kottelat, M.
Reviewer/s:	Bogutskaya, N., & Smith, K. (IUCN Freshwater Biodiversity Unit)
Justification: A widespread species, known from the Tisza and Timis systems (Romania, Slovakia, Ukraine, Hungary in the Danube drainage). It has a suspected slow decline with recent and on-going economic development (pollution, damming in headwaters) in eastern Europe. However, not at a rate to qualify the species for a threatened or Near Threatened category.
History:	1996 – Lower Risk/near threatened (Baillie and Groombridge 1996)

Geographic Range [top]

Range Description:	Danube drainage: Tisza and Timis systems (Romania, Slovakia, Ukraine, Hungary).
Countries:	Native: Hungary; Poland; Romania; Serbia; Slovakia; Ukraine
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Population [top]

Population:	Suspected to be slowly declining.
Population Trend:	Unknown

Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology:

Habitat: Piedmont and montane zones in clear, well oxygenated brooks. Ammocoetes in detritus-rich sands or clay sediments. Biology: Predatory, freshwater resident. Ammocoetes stage lasts 3.5-4.5 years. Ammoecoetes feed on detritus and insect larvae; they usually metamorphose in July-August. Metamorphosis lasts 1-5 months and feeding starts in the following March. Spawns in spring, usually after one year of predatory life, in April-June in uppermost reaches of brooks. Dies after spawning. Adults feed on live and dead fish; they usually kill their prey and feed on body tissues or swallow the whole fish.

Systems:

Freshwater

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s):

Locally threatened by damming in headwaters and pollution.

Conservation Actions [top]

Conservation Actions:

No information.

Bibliography [top]

IUCN. 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Available at: http://www.iucnredlist.org. (Accessed: 5 October 2008). Kottelat, M. and Freyhof, J. 2007. Handbook of European Freshwater Fishes. Publications Kottelat, Cornol, Switzerland. Renaud, C.B. and Holcík, J. 1986. in: Holcík, J. (ed.) The freshwater fishes of Europe. 1, Part I. Petromyzontiformes. Aula, Wiesbaden.