[
UK
/lˈʌŋfɪʃ/
]
[ US /ˈɫəŋˌfɪʃ/ ]
[ US /ˈɫəŋˌfɪʃ/ ]
NOUN
- air-breathing fish having an elongated body and fleshy paired fins; certain species construct mucus-lined mud coverings in which to survive drought
How To Use lungfish In A Sentence
- 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
- Transmission electron microscopy reveals that the enamel of the lungfish dentition contains no collagen, nor does it stain with picrosirius red.
- The lungfish is living proof that fish could evolve to breathe on land.
- A third group of fishes, the lungfishes or fishes that can breathe on land, survive today as freshwater fishes in Queensland.
- Bony fishes, lungfishes, & most ganoids - retain highly cartilaginous neurocranium that is covered by membrane bone
- 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). A Disclaimer for Behe?
- Today lungs are found not only in land vertebrates but also in a few obscure fish lineages, such as gar, bichir, and lungfish.
- Tetrapods, whose closest living relatives are lungfish, have two main groups: amphibians and amniotes.
- There are five hypaxial muscles in both the African and South American lungfishes.
- Today lungs are found not only in land vertebrates but also in a few obscure fish lineages, such as gar, bichir, and lungfish.