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    Bowfin (redirect from Amia calva)
    The bowfin (Amia calva) is a bony fish, native to North America. Common names include mudfish, mud pike, dogfish, grindle, grinnel, swamp trout, and choupique...
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    species in Amia, Amia calva and Amia ocellicauda, and a number of extinct species which have been described from the fossil record. The genus name Amia derives...
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    described by John Richardson from Lake Huron in 1836, it was synonymized with Amia calva until genetic work in 2022 revealed them to be separate species. This...
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    ɪfɔːrmiːz/ order of fish has only two extant species, the bowfins: Amia calva and Amia ocellicauda, the latter recognized as a separate species in 2022...
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    Halecomorphi, represented by the single living genus, Amia with two species, the bowfins (Amia calva and Amia ocellicauda), as well as the Ginglymodi, the sole...
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    as even more basal Amiiformes. In the latter case the extant bowfin, Amia calva, would be the closest living relative of Leedsichthys. Within the Pachycormidae...
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    Neopterygii. The only extant Halecomorph species are the bowfin (Amia calva) and eyespot bowfin (Amia ocellicauda), but the group contains many extinct species...
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  • Zealand and south-eastern Australia. Mudfish may also refer to: Bowfin (Amia calva), North America Channa or snakehead, a genus of predatory fish in Asia...
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  • owstonii), a species of sleeper sharks in the family Somniosidae Bowfin (Amia calva), a freshwater fish sometimes known as "dogfish" Dogfish Bay, an inlet...
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    bases of the pectoral fins are yellow. Bowfins (Amiiformes) The bowfin (Amia calva) is the sole extant member of its order. The most distinctive characteristic...
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  • larger fishes, such as the striped bass (Morone saxatilis), bowfin (Amia calva) and gray weakfish (Cynoscion regalis), prey on the pickerels in turn...
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    from Jurassic Period fishes of the Teays, such as the primitive bowfin (Amia calva) and various gars (Lepisosteus spp). The Teays River was discovered and...
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    "Otoliths suggest lifespans more than 30 years for free‐living Bowfin Amia calva – implications for fisheries management in the bowfishing era". Journal...
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    fish exhibit the latter two forms, ctenoid or cycloid, but the bowfin (Amia calva) is an example of a fish with ganoid scales that is deemed kosher. As...
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  • of this order, both in the genus Haplobothrium, are gut parasites of Amia calva, the bowfin. The intermediate hosts are freshwater teleosts. Bray, Rod...
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    (Petromyzontiformes) Bony fish Arowana and arapaima (Osteoglossidae) Bowfin (Amia calva) Coelacanth (the lobed-finned Latimeria menadoensis and Latimeria chalumnae)...
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    (December 2013). "Kinematics of ribbon-fin locomotion in the bowfin, Amia calva". Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Ecological Genetics and Physiology...
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    gar (Atractosteus spatula), spotted gar (Lepisosteus oculatus), bowfin (Amia calva), and redfin pickerel (Esox americanus). Some sport fish native to the...
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    Freshwater fish of the Potomac River Bowfin Amia calva White bullhead catfish Ameiurus catus Yellow bullhead catfish Ameiurus natalis Brown bullhead catfish...
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    The fish would compete with other carnivorous fish such as the bowfin (Amia calva). Movement rates were higher during the summer than during the fall and...
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    over sand, gravel, or rock bottom Endangered Amiidae (family) Bowfin Amia calva Sloughs, sluggish rivers to medium rivers with moderate flow Anguillidae...
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    Bonnethead Sphyrna tiburo Y Y Bonnetmouth Emmelichthyops atlanticus Y Y Bowfin Amia calva Y Y Bramble shark Echinorhinus brucus Y Y Brazilian cownose ray Rhinoptera...
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  • (gars) Longnose gar (Lepisosteus osseus) O Family Amiidae (bowfin) Bowfin (Amia calva) O, rare Family Hiodontidae (mooneyes) Goldeye (Hiodon alosoides) O, rare...
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    Page, L.M., 1998, Nest association between a large predator, the bowfin (Amia calva), and its prey, the golden shiner (Notemigonus crysoleucas). Copeia 1998:...
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  • Columbia, in 1914. Her cytology research primarily concerned bowfin (Amia calva) and the lateral cell lines of these bony fish. She also worked on the...
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    portions of the Edisto include spotted sucker (Minytrema melanops), bowfin (Amia calva), flat bullhead (Ameiurus platycephalus), largemouth bass (Micropterus...
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    and they rush to that site, leaving the male's real nest alone. Bowfin (Amia calva) males caring for their free-swimming fry exhibit a related distraction...
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  • platorynchus American paddlefish Polyodon spathula 150 cm (59 in) Bowfin Amia calva 109 cm (43 in) Spotted Gar Lepisosteus oculatus 70 cm (27.5 in) Longnose...
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  • spotted dogfish or nursehound Family Amiidae, the bowfin, including: Amia calva Dolphinfish, genus Coryphaena, including: Common dolphinfish Pompano dolphinfish...
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  • fontinalis Order: Amiiformes, Family: Amiidae Native species Bowfin, Amia calva In Arkansas, the bowfin is typically known as grinnel. Order: Siluriformes...
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