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Definition of Ceratodus
1. Noun. Extinct lungfish.
Definition of Ceratodus
1. n. A genus of ganoid fishes, of the order Dipnoi, first known as Mesozoic fossil fishes; but recently two living species have been discovered in Australian rivers. They have lungs so well developed that they can leave the water and breathe in air. In Australia they are called salmon and baramunda. See Dipnoi, and Archipterygium.
Definition of Ceratodus
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Ceratodus
Literary usage of Ceratodus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Text-book of Zoology by Thomas Jeffery Parker, William Aitcheson Haswell (1921)
"The ceratodus or " Burnett Salmon " (Fig. 914) is the largest of the Dipnoi ...
ceratodus forsteri lives in still pools in which the water in the dry season ..."
2. The Scientific Memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley by Thomas Henry Huxley, Michael Foster (1902)
"ON ceratodus FORSTERI, WITH OBSERVATIONS ON THE CLASSIFICATION OF FISHES.
Proceedings of the Scientific Meetings of the Zoological Society of London for the ..."
3. On Mammalian Descent: The Hunterian Lectures for 1884 : Being Nine Lectures by William Kitchen Parker (1885)
"The living ceratodus is a waif or stray from a nearly lost order of fishes—the
... Now such fishes as this Australian ceratodus, as the African Protopterus, ..."
4. The Morphology of the Skull by William Kitchen Parker, George Thomas Bettany (1877)
"In both, there are two opercular bones, an operculum and an interoper* culum; in
Lepidosiren, as in ceratodus, there are cartilaginous plates attached to ..."
5. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria by Royal Society of Victoria (Melbourne, Vic.), Royal Society of Victoria (1892)
"Note on the Habits of ceratodus forsten. By W. BALDWIN SPENCER, ... As is well
known, the group Dipnoi contains only three third (ceratodus) at the present ..."
6. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1894)
"ceratodus.—At last we are to have an adequate monograph of this most interesting
... From the first parts we learn that ceratodus is confined to the middle ..."
7. Evolution by Atrophy in Biology and Sociology by Jean Demoor, Jean Massart, Emile Vandervelde (1899)
"In ceratodus especially it is exhibited ... fin (such as that of ceratodus) (fig.
18) is always the starting-point. Then the lateral rods of one half almost ..."
8. Habit and Intelligence: A Series of Essays on the Laws of Life and Mind by Joseph John Murphy, ( (1879)
"Lepidosiren and ceratodus, which are the only known genera of fishes that breathe
... ceratodus and Lepidosiren.—The intermediate forms which must have once ..."
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