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Lungfish are
freshwater vertebrates belonging to the
class Dipnoi.
Lungfish are best
known for
retaining ancestral characteristics within the Osteichthyes...
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their classification into two clades: the
Rhipidistia (comprising the
Dipnoi, or lungfish, and the Tetrapodomorpha,
which includes the Tetrapoda) and...
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Tetrapoda and the lungfishes.
Rhipidistia includes Porolepiformes and
Dipnoi.
Extensive fossilization of
lungfishes has
contributed to many evolutionary...
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Patrick M.; Chami,
Remigius (January 2009). "A new
Cretaceous lungfish (
Dipnoi: Ceratodontidae) from the
Rukwa Rift Basin, Tanzania".
African Natural History...
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Dipnoi (lungfish) Tetrapoda...
- and bone lost
among the
chondrostean fishes.
Lungs have been
retained in
dipnoi (lungfish), and many
tetrapods (birds, mammals, reptiles, and some amphibians)...
- Its tooth-bearing
premaxillary and
maxillary bones are
fused as in all
Dipnoi.
South American lungfish also
share an
autostylic jaw
suspension (where...
- planet. It is one of six
extant representatives of the
ancient air-breathing
Dipnoi (lungfishes) that
flourished during the
Devonian period (about 413–365 million...
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Sarcopterygii (lobe-finned fish)
Subclass Actinistia (coelacanths)
Subclass Dipnoi (lungfish,
sister group to the tetrapods) † –
indicates extinct taxon Some...
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includes most
familiar bony fish)
Sarcopterygii Actinistia (coelacanths)
Dipnoi (lungfish)
Tetrapoda Amphibia (amphibians)
Amniota Mammalia (mammals) Aves...
