Biologist from Yurok Tribe discovers new lamprey species
Keith Parker’s passion for understanding life beneath the water led the Yurok Fisheries Department biologist to discover two new subspecies of Pacific lamprey, a jawless fish that resembles an eel with a sucker-like mouth, on the Klamath River… The ocean-maturing variety will be referred to in academic literature by the Yurok word for ocean, tewol, while the river-maturing variety will be called by the Yurok word for Pacific lamprey, key’ween.