Lethenteron japonicum (Martens, 1868)
Synonyms:
Petromyzon japonicus Martens, 1868, Arch. Naturgesch., 34: 3-4 (Japan). Type: ?
Petromyzon fluvialis Richardson, 1836, Fauna Boreali-Americana, (3): 294 (Great Slave Lake).
Petromyzon borealis Girard, 1859, Pac. R.R. Sur., 10, 1858, (4), Fishes: 377 (Great Slave Lake). Type: unknown.
Petromyzon fluviatilis: Gunther, 1870, 8: 5041 Smitt, 1895, 2: 1189.
Petromyzon ernstii Dybowski, 1872, Verh. zool.-bot. Gesell. Wien, 22: 220 (Amur estuary). Type: unknown.
Ammocoetes aureus Bean, 1882, Proc. U.S. natn. Mus., 4, 1881: 159 (Yukon River).
Lampetra aurea: Jordan and Evermann, 1896 :13 | Evermann and Goldsborough, 1907, 26: 227, fig. 3.
Lampetra japonica: Hatta, 1901, 4(1): 23 | Mori, 1952, 1: 14 | Andriashev, 1954, 53: 27, fig. 2 | Walters, 1955, 106: 272 | Morozova, 1956, 7 :149 | Lindberg and Legeza, 1959, 68 :18, fig. 5-6 | Tambs-Lyche, 1963, 11: 23 | McPhail and Lindsey, 1970, 173: 52.
Petromyzon kessleri Anikin, 1905, Izv. Tomsk Univ.: 10 (rivers Tom and Kirgizka near Tomsk). Type: unknown.
Lampetra mitsukurii major Hatta, 1911, Annot. zool. jap., 7: 268, pl. IX (Sapporo, Japan).
Entosphenus japonicus: Regan, 1911, 7(8): 202 | Mori, 1956, 2: 2.
Entosphenus (Lethenteron) japonicus: Creaser and Hubbs, 1922 ,120: 11.
Lampetra borealis: Jordan et al., 1930, (2): 10.
Lampetra (Lampetra) japonica: Berg, 1931a, 32(1): 98| Holly, 1933, 59: 26 | Berg, 1948, 27: 29 | Fontaine, 1958 :160.
Lampetra japonica septentrionalis Sterba, 1962, Handbuch Binnenfischerei Mitteleuropas, III, 10: 272 (basin of Japan Sea, River Amur, Kamchatka, Yukon River) .
Common names:
Arctic lamprey [UK and USA]
nG-mug-u-shuk [Greenland]
kawayatsume [Japan]
tikhookeanskaya minoga [Russia]
ledovitomorskaya minoga [Russia]