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n. - Extant Australian lungfishes.

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  • Incidentally, given that Neoceratodus is mentioned in the above text I am morally obliged to direct you to Pharyngula’s Neoceratodus campaign.
  • Neoceratodus is of a lineage of particular interest to questions about tetrapod evolution.
  • If Neoceratodus is the most plesiomorphic species of living lungfishes, then lepidosirenid apomorphies may have arisen by paedomorphosis.
  • The nervous systems of Latimeria and Neoceratodus are very similar to each other, as are the nervous systems of lepidosirenid lungfishes, caecilians, and salamanders.
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