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In the animal kingdom, some of the largest genomes include certain lungfishes and salamander at about 120 billion base pairs.
From BBC ● May 31, 2024
Living members of this clade include the less-familiar lungfishes and coelacanths.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
Saint-Hilaire’s discovery caused a bit of a stir throughout the scientific world as the fish was thought to be one of the extinct lobe-finned fishes, which are today represented by the coelacanths and air-breathing lungfishes.
From Slate ● Jan. 27, 2014
Because the flippers seem to have a stiffening rib that runs along the midline, they are, with the possible exception of lungfishes, unlike those of most other aquatic vertebrates.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 10, 2013
Living members of lobe-finned fishes include the less familiar lungfishes and coelacanth.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 25, 2013
