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The West African lungfish is historically known as a unique species and an early precursor of fish to tetrapods. Due to its monophyletic clade, Dipnoi, it is the sister group to the tetrapods; this is attributed to its distinctive physiology and inferred data from fossil and taxa records.
The Tasmanian mudfish is found in Tasmania and in southern Victoria, on either side of the Bass Strait, [4] and New Zealand's brown mudfish is found on either side of Cook Strait. [ 2 ] : 305 Both species likely extended their range during the Pleistocene , when the sea levels were low and there were land connections between the respective ...
The Chatham mudfish is the most Galaxias-like of all the mudfishes, with a short body and small pelvic fins, and is closely related to the Canterbury mudfish. [5] Neochanna rekohua averages 75 mm (3.0 in) (though the largest individuals can reach 175 mm (6.9 in), and is a dark mottled brown. It only lives on the edges of a few peaty lakes ...
The Canterbury mudfish is tubular and flexible, with small but fleshy fins. [6] The head is small and blunt, with small eyes and mouth and small tubular nostrils. [6] Like the Chatham mudfish, the Canterbury mudfish retains very small pelvic fins, which are absent in the other three mainland New Zealand Neochanna.
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Approximate known distribution of the black mudfish on a map of the North Island The waikaka or black mudfish ( Neochanna diversus ) is a fish of the family Galaxiidae , [ 1 ] found only in swamps and wetlands in the northern half of the North Island of New Zealand, from Kaitaia in the north to the Mōkau River in the south.
The bowfin (Amia calva) is a ray-finned fish native to North America. Common names include mudfish, mud pike, dogfish, grindle, grinnel, swamp trout, and choupique.It is regarded as a relict, being one of only two surviving species of the Halecomorphi, a group of fish that first appeared during the Early Triassic, around 250 million years ago.
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