How To Use Lungfish In A Sentence
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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.
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Tiktaalik would have breathed like a lungfish, says Clack, senior assistant curator at Cambridge's University Museum of Zoology.
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The data set included sequences of genes from mammals, birds, amphibians, coelacanths, lungfishes, ray-finned fishes, and cartilaginous fishes.
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If Neoceratodus is the most plesiomorphic species of living lungfishes, then lepidosirenid apomorphies may have arisen by paedomorphosis.
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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 lungfish use lungs as accessory breathing organs, and during droughts modern forms can survive for several years in burrows.
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Tetrapods are part of a larger groups called Sarcopterygii, which also includes several groups of lobe-finned fish, such as lungfish and the coelacanth.
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The ray-fins include the thousands of familiar sport and commercial fishes, but of the lobe-fins, only eight species survive, six lungfishes and two coelacanths.
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A few modern fishes, including the coelacanth, the African bichir Polypterus, and three genera of lungfishes, retained lungs … In two major lineages of derived bony fishes - the chondrosteans and the teleosts -- lungs evolved to swim bladders by atrophy of vascular tissue to create a more or less empty sac and, in some cases, by loss of the connecting tube to the esophagus (called the trachea in humans and other creatures with lungs).
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But in coelacanths, lungfishes and some primitive sharks, the transformation of notochord into a segmented bony vertebral column does not take place.
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Apparently, the coelacanth, lungfish, and tetrapod lineages diverged within such a short time interval that at this level of analysis, their relationships appear to be an irresolvable trichotomy.
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Compare with the lungfish, another example of living fossil.
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Tetrapods are part of a larger groups called Sarcopterygii, which also includes several groups of lobe-finned fish, such as lungfish and the coelacanth.
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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.
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The paired fins of the Australian lungfish, Neoceratodus forsteri (another living fossil), are similar to those of Latimeria.
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The birds use the bill to grab at large aquatic prey like lungfishes, catfish, tilapia, snakes, turtles and frogs.
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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 technique is very reminiscent of that used by the amphibians' far distant and antique cousin, the lungfish.
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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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A Lungfish is my constant companion in and out of the fishhouse Least favourite species and why?
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The lungfish is living proof that fish could evolve to breathe on land.
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Among vertebrates, only the cartilaginous fishes, lungfishes and amphibians (especially salamanders) possess exceptionally large C-values.
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Long shots for the title include caviar-producing sturgeon, goliath Amazon catfish, giant lungfish, razor-toothed gars, massive cods, and Mongolian salmon.
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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.
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For instance, the photoreceptive cells, which house the visual pigments, are bigger in lungfish than for any other vertebrate, probably making them more sensitive to light.
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Although the molecules function at high oxygen concentrations in sharks, lungfishes, and even tetrapods, they are most efficient at releasing oxygen in those conditions in codfish and other modern fish.
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Today lungs are found not only in land vertebrates but also in a few obscure fish lineages, such as gar, bichir, and lungfish.
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The fins are very flexible and potentially useful for supporting the body on land, as in lungfish and tetrapods.
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The technique is very reminiscent of that used by the amphibians' far distant and antique cousin, the lungfish.
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The lungfish is living proof that fish could evolve to breathe on land.
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A third group of fishes, the lungfishes or fishes that can breathe on land, survive today as freshwater fishes in Queensland.
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Bony fishes, lungfishes, & most ganoids - retain highly cartilaginous neurocranium that is covered by membrane bone
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A better example than the mudskipper would be the coelacanths, or lobe-fin fish which, along with lungfish, diverged about the same time as tetrapods (as supported by genetic evidence).
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Today lungs are found not only in land vertebrates but also in a few obscure fish lineages, such as gar, bichir, and lungfish.
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Tetrapods, whose closest living relatives are lungfish, have two main groups: amphibians and amniotes.
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There are five hypaxial muscles in both the African and South American lungfishes.
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Today lungs are found not only in land vertebrates but also in a few obscure fish lineages, such as gar, bichir, and lungfish.
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And some fossil catfishes, lungfishes, and characins date back to the Late Cretaceous, 70 million years ago.
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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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Finding labyrinthodont amphibian vertebrae and lungfish teeth, we took several bags of matrix to wash.
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The length of that code easily beats its nearest competitor, a long-bodied muck dweller known as the marbled lungfish.
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The lungfish is living proof that fish could evolve to breathe on land.
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Transmission electron microscopy reveals that the enamel of the lungfish dentition contains no collagen, nor does it stain with picrosirius red.
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Sharks, and similar chondrichthyes, have heterocercal tails; the diphycercal tails are found in lungfish and their relatives; and the homocercal tail is characteristic of bony fish.
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He grumbled, rapidly crawling ahead at a rate I'd never have expected to see in a land-adapted fish, be it a walking catfish or a lungfish.
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Freshwater types continued to flourish, including the rhizodonts and lungfish.
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Also, I am still trying to get you to commit to say something with regard to P-cells in lungfish, salamanders etc, which should really stand out with respect to P-cell arborization given their massive genomes.
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This looks a little like a lungfish and is half fish, half eel shaped.
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Long shots for the title include caviar-producing sturgeon, goliath Amazon catfish, giant lungfish, razor-toothed gars, massive cods, and Mongolian salmon.
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But the play of light and color, the universe of vision is for others - foolish, energy-wasting acanthodians and lungfish, easily confused and misled in the dim, murky bottomland.
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In the handful of cases currently available for animals, namely lungfishes, amphibians, and conodonts, long-term stasis was found to be the rule.
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The sarcopterygians include the lungfish, together with the crossopterygians, which are composed of coelacanths and the extinct rhipidistians.
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It included many living groups: stingrays, lungfish, pirarucu, piranha, goliath catfishes, some electric fishes, and cichlids.
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As the pools shrink, the lungfish burrows into the mud at the bottom.
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These include lungfish, Arapaima, tambaqui, piranha, Hydrolycus, and goliath and pirarara catfishes.
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The skulls of Devonian lungfish have a tessera of small superficial bones, fused to an ossified chondrocranium.
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They include sharks, guppies, and lungfish to name a few.
