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Definition of Bowfins

bowfin
Amia Am"i*a, n. [L., fr. Gr. ? a kind of tunny.] (Zo["o]l.) A genus of fresh-water ganoid fishes, exclusively confined to North America; called bowfin in Lake Champlain, dogfish in Lake Erie, and mudfish in South Carolina, etc. See Bowfin.
Bowfin
Bowfin Bow"fin`, n. (Zo["o]l.) A voracious ganoid fish (Amia calva) found in the fresh waters of the United States; the mudfish; -- called also Johnny Grindle, and dogfish.

Meaning of Bowfins from wikipedia

- the eyespot bowfin. The closest living relatives of bowfins are gars, with the two groups being united in the clade Holostei. Bowfins are demersal freshwater...
- USS Bowfin (SS/AGSS-287), is a Balao-class submarine of the United States Navy named for the bowfin fish. Since 1981, she has been open to public tours...
- could still be used for breathing, a trait still present in Holostei (bowfins and gars). In some fish like the arapaima, the swim bladder has been modified...
- PMID 36192509. Palumbo, Jay (1 May 2016). "Morphological Diversity of Bowfins (Amia spp., Amiidae) Among the Laurentian Great Lakes and South Carolina"...
- cartilaginous skeleton in the bowfins. In gars, the tail is still heterocercal but less so than in the chondrosteans. Bowfins have many-ra**** dorsal fins...
- disparate from bowfins, such as the caturids. The extinct species of the Amiiformes can be found as fossils in Asia and Europe, but the bowfin is the last...
- Actinopteri comprise the Chondrostei (sturgeons and paddlefish), the Holostei (bowfins and gars), and the teleosts; in other words, all extant ray-finned fish...
- subfamilies of Amiidae are known from Jur****ic, Cretaceous, and Eocene fossils. Bowfins are now found throughout eastern North America, typically in slow-moving...
- the lungs of tetrapods and lungfish, and some ray-finned fish such as bowfins have also evolved similar respiratory functions in their swim bladders...
- United States Navy submarine commander in World War II. He commanded USS Bowfin (SS-287) on her second through fourth patrols, becoming her most successful...