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lungfishes

  • plural
    of lungfish.
    lungfish
    noun
    any of various slender, air-breathing fishes of the order (or subclass) Dipnoi, of rivers and lakes in Africa, South America, and Australia, having a lunglike air bladder as well as gills and growing to a length of 3 to 6 feet (0.9 to 1.8 meters).

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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

Living members of lobe-finned fishes include the less familiar lungfishes and coelacanth.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 25, 2013

The closest living relatives of these transitional creatures are the lobe-finned fishes, including the lungfishes, which spawn in water, and the coelacanth, which has internal fertilization despite lacking claspers.

From Scientific American ● Apr. 22, 2011

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