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Definition of Neoceratodus
1. Noun. Extant Australian lungfishes.
Generic synonyms: Fish Genus
Group relationships: Ceratodontidae, Family Ceratodontidae
Lexicographical Neighbors of Neoceratodus
Literary usage of Neoceratodus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1907)
"Later, generic differences were noticed, and it was separated as a distinct group
by Castelnau in 1876, under the name of neoceratodus (later called ..."
2. Organic Evolution by Richard Swann Lull (1917)
"which the water had become so foul that it was full of dead fishes of various kinds.
Fatal as these conditions were to ordinary fishes, neoceratodus not ..."
3. Vertebrate Zoölogy by Horatio Hackett Newman (1920)
"neoceratodus forsteri, a fish that reaches a length of over five feet (Fig. ...
Fatal as these conditions were for ordinary fishes, neoceratodus not only ..."
4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1895)
"... and plication of the dental plates, and had revived for the recent genus the
name neoceratodus given in mistake by Castelnau to a specimen of the genus. ..."