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Dipnoi   Listen
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Dipnoi  n. pl.  (Zool.) A group of ganoid fishes, including the living genera Ceratodus and Lepidosiren, which present the closest approximation to the Amphibia. The air bladder acts as a lung, and the nostrils open inside the mouth. See Ceratodus.





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... the circulatory and respiratory systems. The fish lives altogether in the water and breathes by gills, but the dipnoi among fishes breathes by lungs as well as gills. As long as respiration takes place by gills alone, the circulation is simple; the blood flows from the heart to the gills, and thence directly all over the body; the oxygenated blood from the gills ...
— The Whence and the Whither of Man • John Mason Tyler


Words linked to "Dipnoi" :   lungfish, Ceratodontidae, Osteichthyes, family Ceratodontidae, subclass Dipnoi, class Osteichthyes, class


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