lepidosiren

How to use lepidosiren in a sentence

• From these primitive fishes were evolved higher fishes of the ganoid type and others of the type of lepidosiren (Dipneusta).

  Evolution in Modern Thought | Ernst Haeckel

• lepidosiren paradoxa was discovered by Natterer in 1837 in tributaries of the Amazon.

  A Guide to the Study of Fishes, Volume 1 (of 2) | David Starr Jordan

• When the water disappears the lepidosiren burrows down into the mud, closing its gill-openings, but breathing through the mouth.

  A Guide to the Study of Fishes, Volume 1 (of 2) | David Starr Jordan

• Six pairs of branchial arches occur in Protopterus; Ceratodus and lepidosiren have five, like most other fish.

  The Vertebrate Skeleton | Sidney H. Reynolds

• No; but from an organ similar in character and position to the air-bladder of a ceratodus, or a lepidosiren.

  Evolution | Joseph Le Conte