ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD DIPNOAN
From New Latin Dipnoi, from Greek dipnoos, double-breathing, from di-1 + pnoē breathing, air, from pnein to breathe.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DIPNOAN»
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Interrelationships of Fishes
Miles (1977) considered Uranolophus wyomingensis to be the most primitive
dipnoan. Campbell and Barwick (1984) regarded Speonesydrion iani and
Dipnorhynchus suessmilchi as the most primitive genera but considered these as
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Melanie L.J. Stiassny, Lynne R. Parenti, G. David Johnson, 1996
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The Central Nervous System of Vertebrates: With Posters
The presence of a conspicuous cluster of cells in the dorsal septum of all dipnoan
species examined (i.e. the dorsal part of the medial septal nucleus; Fig. 16.37;
Fig. 16.41: arrows 4) is of particular importance in this context. The investigations
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R. Nieuwenhuys, Hendrik Jan Donkelaar, Charles Nicholson, 1998
3
The Central Nervous System of Vertebrates: A General Survey ...
Dipnoans The typologic features of the Dipnoan neuraxis can be evaluated as
representing a transition between those obtaining in Selachians and those
characteristic for Amphibians. The Dipnoan telencephalon is mainly formed by
rostral ...
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Earth and Life: Global Biodiversity, Extinction Intervals ...
The most common and best known dipnoan from that formation is Griphognathus
whitei (Fig. 10b). Isolated lowerjaws, tooth plates and skull fragments are the
most common fossil remains of sarcopterygians in macrovertebrate assemblages
; ...
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Origins of the Higher Groups of Tetrapods: Controversy and ...
Dipnoan-Tetrapod Sister-Group Relationship In reasserting a close relationship
between dipnoans and tetrapods (Fig. 25), Rosen et al. (1981) emphasized the
existence of homologous structures in the nasal region and the appendages.
Hans-Peter Schultze, Linda Trueb, 1991
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Chinese Fossil Vertebrates
The same localitythat yielded Youngolepis is alsothe site ofthe earliest dipnoan,
Diabolepis speratus (M. Chang andYu 1984). Another early dipnoan is
Sorbitorhynchus fromtheDale Formation in Guangxi (Campbell and Barwick 1990
).
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The Skull, Volume 2: Patterns of Structural and Systematic ...
The development of skeleton, blood-vessels, and nerves in the dipnoan snout,
with a discussion on the homology of the dipnoan posterior nostrils. Acta
Zoologica, Stockholm 47: 81-150. Borgen, U. J. 1989. Cosmine resorption
structures on ...
James Hanken, Brian K. Hall, 1993
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Comparative Structure and Evolution of Cerebral Cortex, Part ...
Because corresponding structures are present in the pallium of several
anamniote groups, the dipnoan cortex should not be considered as exclusively
comparable to the reptilian and mammalian pallial cortices. One of the most
characteristic ...
Edward G. Jones, Alan Peters, 1990
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Issues in Biological, Biochemical, and Evolutionary Sciences ...
Dipnoan. Griphognathus. Whitei. By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at
Science Letter — Investigators discuss new findings in Vertebrate Paleontology.
According to news originating from Canberra, Australia, by NewsRx
correspondents, ...
The upper jaw of the shark is part of the palate, the palate being fused with the
quadrate bone which supports the lower jaw. That of the dipnoan is much the
same. The development of a typical fish mouth is the next step in evolution and
with ...
