- to
polypterids. The
oldest polypterids are
around 100
million years old, from the
early Late
Cretaceous of
South America and Africa.
Polypterids are...
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Bawitius is an
extinct genus of
giant polypterid from the
Upper Cretaceous (lower Cenomanian)
Bahariya Formation of Egypt. The type
species is B. bartheli...
- Frank,
Lawrence R.; Long, John A. (2014). "Spiracular air
breathing in
polypterid fishes and its
implications for
aerial respiration in stem tetrapods"...
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actinopterygian clades (in
millions of years, mya) are from Near et al., 2012. The
polypterids (bichirs and reedfish) are the
sister lineage of all
other actinopterygians...
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Lawrence R.; Long, John A. (January 2014). "Spiracular air
breathing in
polypterid fishes and its
implications for
aerial respiration in stem tetrapods"...
- species. A
notorious case in the
United States is the
Northern snakehead.
Polypterids have
rudimentary lungs and can also move
about on land,
though rather...
- Frank,
Lawrence R.; Long, John A. (2014). "Spiracular air
breathing in
polypterid fishes and its
implications for
aerial respiration in stem tetrapods"...
- Queensland.
Retrieved 6
January 2016.
Molecular developmental mechanism in
polypterid fish
provides insight into the
origin of
vertebrate lungs Changes in Nkx2...
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itself endemic to the
Congo Basin. P.
mokelembembe is the
smallest extant Polypterid,
reaching a
maximum recorded adult length of 14
inches (36 cm). It is...
- are
invasive species, for example, the
northern snakehead in the U.S.
Polypterids have
rudimentary lungs and can also move
about on land,
though rather...
