The Australian lungfish (Neoceratodus forsteri), also known as the Queensland lungfish, Burnett salmon and barramunda, is the only surviving member of...
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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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Methuselah (captured 1938; born as early as 1922) is an Australian lungfish residing at the Steinhart Aquarium. She is known for being the oldest living...
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Shedd Aquarium (section Australian Lungfish)
expected to visit Chicago for the exposition in 1933. Granddad, an Australian lungfish, arrived at the Shedd in 1933, along with his mate, from Sydney during...
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Steinhart Aquarium in the California Academy of Sciences has an Australian lungfish named Methuselah. It is the world's oldest aquarium fish with an...
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Neoceratodus (category Lungfish)
Neoceratodus is a genus of lungfish in the family Neoceratodontidae. The extant Australian lungfish (Neoceratodus forsteri) is the only surviving member...
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Wivenhoe Dam (category Use Australian English from June 2020)
2003. Retrieved 14 January 2011. "Neoceratodus forsteri – Australian Lungfish, Queensland Lungfish". Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population...
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salmon (genus Arripis and family Arripidae) Australian grayling Australian herring Australian lungfish Australian prowfish (family Pataecidae) Ayu (Plecoglossus...
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Ceratodontiformes (category Lungfish)
South American and African lungfish also all have generally small scales and two lungs as opposed to the Australian lungfish's single lung. The suborder...
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bonytongues, and the Queensland lungfish. The Queensland lungfish is the most primitive of the lungfish, having evolved before Australia separated from Gondwana...
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and Horses), a character in the British sitcom series Granddad, an Australian lungfish at the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago Granddad (film), a 1913 American...
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Peter Garrett (category Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Australia)
1953) is an Australian musician, environmentalist, activist and former politician. In 1973, Garrett became the lead singer of the Australian rock band Midnight...
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Neoceratodontidae (category Lungfish)
Neoceratodontidae is a family of lungfish containing Neoceratodus (represented by the extant Australian lungfish) and the extinct Mioceratodus. It, Lepidosirenidae...
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evolved from sarcopterygian ancestors and are most closely related to lungfishes. Their paired pectoral and pelvic fins evolved into limbs, and their foregut...
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In many lobe-finned fish, including living coelacanths and the Australian lungfish, the fin skeleton is based around a straight string of midline bones...
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Lung (category Use Australian English from September 2016)
including all tetrapod vertebrates and a small number of amphibious fish (lungfish and bichirs), pulmonate gastropods (land snails and slugs, which have analogous...
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geologic time.[citation needed] The Australian lungfish (Neoceratodus fosteri), also known as the Queensland lungfish, is an example of an organism that...
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Burnett River (category Use Australian English from November 2015)
January 2022). "Tell Us a Story Granddad: Age and Origin of an Iconic Australian Lungfish". Frontiers in Environmental Science. 10. doi:10.3389/fenvs.2022...
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Anne Kemp (category Australian ichthyologists)
an Australian ichthyologist and paleoichthyologist who specializes in lungfishes (order Dipnoi). Her primary area of study is the Australian lungfish (Neoceratodus...
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turtle Northern death adder Spiny-tailed monitor Freshwater crocodile Australian lungfish Mouth almighty Common archerfish Barramundi The National Aquarium...
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and a recreation of a Daintree Rainforest river with archerfish, Australian lungfish, and Fly River turtles. The Mangshan pitviper, west African green...
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Brisbane River (category Use Australian English from June 2020)
supply for Brisbane. The waterway is a habitat for the rare Queensland lungfish, Brisbane River cod (extinct), and bull sharks. Early travellers along...
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Ompax spatuloides (category 1872 in Australia)
an eel, a mullet's body, and the head of an Australian lungfish. The last animal, the Australian lungfish, was an extraordinary fish whose existence had...
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Collin, Shaun P (2007). "Visual pigments in a living fossil, the Australian lungfish Neoceratodus forsteri". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 7 (1): 200. Bibcode:2007BMCEE...
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Thomas Lane Bancroft (category Use Australian English from July 2021)
mosquito-borne diseases such as filariasis, the lifecyle of the Australian lungfish, and new crop varieties. Thomas Lane Bancroft was born on 2 January...
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The lobe-finned fish is the class of fleshy finned fishes, consisting of lungfish and coelacanths. They are bony fish with fleshy, lobed paired fins, which...
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replicating a mangrove forest houses a variety of Australasian fish like Australian lungfish and banded archerfish. Nearby is a smaller enclosure for mudskippers...
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History of the Australian Lungfish Neoceratodus forsteri (Krefft, 1870)". In Jorgensen, Jorden Morup; Joss, Jean (eds.). The Biology of Lungfishes. CRC Press...
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mudskipper Australian lungfish Giant gourami Giant pacu Largescale four-eyes Red-bellied piranha Redtail catfish South American lungfish Spotted gar...
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Scoloplacidae absorb air through their digestive tracts. Lungfish, with the exception of the Australian lungfish, and bichirs have paired lungs similar to those...
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