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The well-known habit of the lophobranchiate fish, of incubating their eggs in their pouches, also displays highly elaborated parental feeling.

From The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals by Weir, James

Solenos′tomus, the typical genus of the Solenostomid�, a family of solenostomous lophobranchiate fishes.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various