10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LEPIDOSIREN»
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lepidosiren in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
lepidosiren and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Observations in Myology, Including the Myology of ...
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Check List of the Freshwater Fishes of South and Central America
Family Lepidosirenidae (Aestivating lungfishes) Gloria Arratia The South
American dipnoans are represented by the monotypic family Lepidosirenidae (
Lepidosiren paradoxa). The presence of a long ceratohyal in lepidosirenids is a
unique ...
3
Darwin's Fishes: An Encyclopedia of Ichthyology, Ecology, ...
The recent lungfishes, initially perceived as amphibians (see, for example, the
title of Krefft 1870, and CD's discussions of *Lepidosiren), consist of the
Australian lungfish Neoceratodus forsteri (Ceratodontidae), the South American
lungfish ...
4
Respiratory Physiology of Vertebrates: Life With and Without ...
Owing to the ventral position of the anterior lung, the pneumatic duct is short and
nearly vertical (Fig. 6.2). The lungs of Lepidosiren and Protopterus are
morphologically similar, but experiments show that Lepidosiren has a greater
capacity for ...
-gill vascular filamentous pelvic fi male American lungfish Lepidosiren paradoxa
Fig. 4. Lepidosiren. 2. Lepidosiren. Lepidosiren paradoxa (Fig. 4) is the only
existing species showing following features. It lives in the river Amazon and its ...
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The Journal of the Royal Dublin Society
It may be premised that the Lepidosiren is invested with a peculiar interest in
consequence of its, as it were, standing upon the boundary line between two
great compartments of the animal creation. It is in itself a proof of how almost ...
7
The Journal of the Linnean Society of London
The mode in which the Lepidosiren (several healthy specimens of which have,
within the last few years, been received from Africa) comes to the surface of the
water to breathe, and the use which the animal makes of its anomalous limbs, are
...
Linnean Society (London), 1861
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Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society: Zoology
The mode in which the Lepidosiren (several healthy specimens of which have,
within the last few years, been received from Africa) comes to the surface of the
water to breathe, and the use which the animal makes of its anomalous limbs, are
...
9
The Natural History Review
In the Lepidosiren, on the contrary, the opercular fold only includes the internal
branchho as in the other perenni-brancbiate Amphibia:, the external branchite
being exposed. As to the general question of the position of the Lepidosiren, I
may ...
10
The Work of John Samuel Budgett Balfour Student of the ...
As in Lepidosiren, the medullary groove arises far forwards and grows back to
the blastopore. In Protopterus (PI. VIII. fig. 6) the medullary folds, though wider in
proportion to the surface of the egg than in Lepidosiren (op. cit. figs, 17 h & 1 8 h),
...
5 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «LEPIDOSIREN»
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lepidosiren is used in the context of the following news items.
Lungfish brains ain't boring
Today, there are three main lungfish genera–Neoceratodus (the Australian lungfish), Lepidosiren (South American lungfish), and Protopterus ... «PLoS Blogs, Dec 14»
Unless They're Zombies, Fossils Don't Live
... on its summit, so we occasionally see an animal like the Ornithorhynchus [duck-billed platypus] or Lepidosiren [lungfish], which in some small ... «Wired News, Aug 12»
A Long Walk To Land
“According to this test, Lepidosiren is a Fish…simply by its nose,” he wrote. As I write in my book At the Water's Edge, Owen turned out to be ... «Discover Magazine, Dec 11»
Misunderstood Marine Life # 7 – The Living Fossils
In fresh water we find some of the most anomalous forms now known in the world, as the Ornithorhynchus and Lepidosiren, which, like fossils, connect to a ... «Southern Fried Science, Oct 11»
The Real First Americans
Keeep going. Are in you in South America yet? Okay, stop. That's where you'll find Lepidosiren paradoxa, the South American Lungfish. «Political Cortex, Apr 06»
