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- noun Plural form of
lungfish .
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Examples
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Lobefins today have dwindled to the lungfishes and the coelacanths ‘dwindled’ as ‘fish’, that is, but mightily expanded on land: we land vertebrates are aberrant lungfish.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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Lobefins today have dwindled to the lungfishes and the coelacanths ‘dwindled’ as ‘fish’, that is, but mightily expanded on land: we land vertebrates are aberrant lungfish.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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The birds use the bill to grab at large aquatic prey like lungfishes, catfish, tilapia, snakes, turtles and frogs.
Archive 2006-05-01 Darren Naish 2006
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His reasons for thinking so are complex and buried deep in the labyrinthine depths of technical zoological literature, but having surveyed the literature, discussed the issue with colleagues, and spent many hours observing Inia on video, I am certain that the idea of either flying lungfishes or dolphins has been based on misinterpretation.
Archive 2006-09-01 Darren Naish 2006
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His reasons for thinking so are complex and buried deep in the labyrinthine depths of technical zoological literature, but having surveyed the literature, discussed the issue with colleagues, and spent many hours observing Inia on video, I am certain that the idea of either flying lungfishes or dolphins has been based on misinterpretation.
Did ichthyosaurs fly? Probably not, no Darren Naish 2006
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For example, the air-breathing lungfishes Protopterus amphibious and P. annectens can survive in a dormant state for over a year in cocoons underneath dried mud.
Biological diversity in the coastal forests of Eastern Africa 2008
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Similarly, although the cladistic approach has produced a prevailing view i.e., that lungfishes are the closest extant relatives of the tetrapods Tree 1; see Rosen et al.
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The hypothesis that lungfishes are the sister group of amphibians is supported by two possible synapomorphies: loss of a saccus vasculosus and the presence of neurocranial endolymphatic sacs.
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But Ghost still thinks that the addition of two lungfishes was the improvement I was looking for.
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The hypothesis that actinistians are the sister group of lungfishes is the most corroborated, based on five possible synapomorphies: presence of a superficial isthmal nucleus, a laminated dorsal thalamus with marked protrusion into the third ventricle, olfactory peduncles, evaginated cerebral hemispheres with pronounced septum ependymale, and electroreceptive rostral organs.
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