re: What is this creature ?

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Thats a lamprey, lampede, lampreder, lampeder.

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First, maybe in your neck of the woods they colloquially are called a lamprey. There are a lot of animals that share common names with a very different type of organism because they roughly resemble something else morphologically. An example is the speckled trout, as it is actually in the same family as marine drum species like redfish and not related to river trout such as the rainbow trout.

Second, a lamprey is not a type of eel. The fact that you are trying to say that it is a lamprey AND an eel leads me to believe that you have no clue what the correct name for the animal is.

I am not denying that an amphiuma may be called a lamprey or eel in some places. However, I am saying that taxonomically it is neither, and has a more correct common name.