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Lungfish are freshwater vertebrates belonging to the class Dipnoi. [1] Lungfish are best known for retaining ancestral characteristics within the Osteichthyes, including the ability to breathe air, and ancestral structures within Sarcopterygii, including the presence of lobed fins with a well-developed internal skeleton.
- Dipnoi, J. P. Müller, 1844
- Animalia
Lungfish, (subclass Dipnoi), any member of a group of six species of living air-breathing fishes and several extinct relatives belonging to the class Sarcopterygii and characterized by the possession of either one or two lungs. The Dipnoi first appeared in the Early Devonian Epoch (about 419.2.
Lungfish are omnivorous and diet on a variety of food, including fish, insects, frogs, worms, mollusks, crustaceans, amphibians and plant material. One of just a tiny minority of their line who survived ancient catastrophes, they remain in muddy swamps, hopping about on leg-like fins and offering us answers to numerous questions about our ...
18 gen 2021 · Our phylogenomic analyses confirm previous reports that lungfish occupy a key evolutionary position as the closest living relatives to tetrapods4,5, underscoring the importance of lungfish for...
- Axel Meyer, Siegfried Schloissnig, Paolo Franchini, Kang Du, Joost M. Woltering, Iker Irisarri, Iker...
- 2021
19 ott 2023 · West African Lungfish. Meet the African lungfish, a prehistoric fish that travels through water and mud, and across land. Discover the unique adaptations that make survival possible for this fish.
2 mag 2022 · Two exceptionally preserved fossils of the Early Devonian lobe-finned fish Youngolepis reveal the origin of the specialized lungfish feeding mechanism.
19 gen 2021 · The complete sequencing of the Australian lungfish genome, with a total size of about 43 billion DNA nucleotides, now makes it possible to confirm the key evolutionary position of lungfishes as ...
