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Vinony's link graph records 27 inbound references to Marbled lungfish, and connects out to Protopterus, Egypt and Ethiopia.
It sits within the topics Fauna of East Africa, Fish described in 1851 and IUCN Red List least concern species.
Vinony links it to 27 Wikipedia language editions.
Species
Least ConcernMarbled Lungfish
Species
- PhylumChordata
- ClassDipneusti
- OrderCeratodontiformes
- FamilyProtopteridae
維多利亞肺魚，又稱石花肺魚、剛果肺魚為和梅氏肺魚，肉鰭魚綱美洲肺魚目非洲肺魚科的其中一種。它有1330亿对碱基对 ，是地球上动物界最大的基因组。
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Wikidata facts
- Image
- Marbled lungfish 1.jpg
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- taxon name
- Protopterus aethiopicus
- Commons category
- Protopterus aethiopicus
- short name
- P. aethiopicus
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Encyclopedic overview
The marbled lungfish (Protopterus aethiopicus) is a lungfish of the family Protopteridae. Also known as the leopard lungfish, it is found in Eastern and Central Africa, as well as the Nile region. At 133 billion base pairs, it has the largest known genome of any animal and one of the largest of any organism, along with the flowering plant Paris japonica, the fern Tmesipteris oblanceolata and the protist Polychaos dubium at 150 billion, 160 billion and 670 billion, respectively.
The marbled lungfish is caught in large numbers throughout much of its range, including several hundred tonnes per year in Mwanza Region's Mwanza Gulf of Lake Victoria alone. It is mostly a food fish, although this varies depending on the exact community, with some recognizing it as a delicacy and others strongly disliking its taste or considering it as a taboo to eat it. In some regions, parts of this fish are used as traditional medicine.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Marbled lungfish” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.