page_title: List of fish in Sweden
section_title: Petromyzontiformes (lampreys)
hierarchical_section_title: List of fish in Sweden / List / Petromyzontiformes (lampreys)
caption_attribution_description: Lampetra fluviatilis from the german northsea
context_page_description: List of fish encountered in Swedish waters; both fresh water and in the marine salt water.
  The table denotes species native to Sweden, as well as those introduced from a neighbouring country and those that have only occurred occasionally. There are approximately 140 species which are native and common in Sweden, plus another 90 which are sporadic, not established or extinct.
  The IUCN Red List is a set of certain criteria of the fish population status in Sweden. The following terminology is used: extinct, critically endangered, endangered, vulnerable, near threatened, least concern, disappeared, data deficient and not evaluated.
context_section_description: A lamprey is a jawless fish with a toothed, funnel-like sucking mouth, with which most species bore into the flesh of other fishes to suck their blood. In zoology, lampreys are not considered to be true fish because of their vastly different morphology and physiology.
  In Sweden, the European river lamprey (Lampetra fluviatilis), living in fresh waters, is the most usual usage of the term lamprey. The Lampetra planeri is a closely related species living in small streams, possibly even the same species.
  The lamprey is the provincial fish of Västerbotten in northern Sweden.
caption: (European) river lamprey
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