lungfish

Table of Contents

References & Edit History Quick Facts & Related Topics

Images

African lungfish

Australian lungfish

Living and fossil forms of Dipnoi fishes.

Read Next

Hippopotamus in the water. Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Kenya

11 Fascinating Nile River Plants and Animals

Spider monkey swinging in a tree. (primate, jungle animal)

Why Do Animals Have Tails?

animal. Amphibian. Frog. Anura. Ranidae. Frog in grass.

Abundant Animals: The Most Numerous Organisms in the World

Discover

Rural Irish landscape, Sligo, Ireland.

Why Is Ireland Two Countries?

Thanksgiving Turkey with all the sides

Why Do We Eat Turkey on Thanksgiving?

Iraqi Army Soldiers from the 9th Mechanized Division learning to operate and maintain M1A1 Abrams Main Battle Tanks at Besmaya Combat Training Center, Baghdad, Iraq, 2011. Military training. Iraq war. U.S. Army

8 Deadliest Wars of the 21st Century

Woman tied to a ducking stool, a method of punishment by means of humiliation, beating, or death. (cucking stool)

8 Unusual Punishments Inflicted on Women Throughout History

Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744-1855), founder of the house of Rothschild; lithograph by Friedrich Lieder, c. 1830.

Where Do Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theories About the Rothschild Family Come From?

Baseball laying in the grass. Homepage blog 2010, arts and entertainment, history and society, sports and games athletics

10 Greatest Baseball Players of All Time

A Factory Interior, watercolor, pen and gray ink, graphite, and white goache on wove paper by unknown artist, c. 1871-91; in the Yale Center for British Art. Industrial Revolution England

Inventors and Inventions of the Industrial Revolution

lungfish: Facts & Related Content

Written and fact-checked by The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

Facts

Also Known As	Dipnoi

Photos

African lungfish

Australian lungfish

Living and fossil forms of Dipnoi fishes.

See All Images →

Topics

Ceratodontiformes Lepidosireniformes Dipterus Ceratodontidae Protopteridae Lepidosirenidae African lungfish Australian lungfish Ethiopian lungfish South American lungfish seahorse eel shark crossopterygian sturgeon salmon ray tuna catfish mackerel

Key People

Sir John Graham Kerr

British biologist

Quiz

Young chimpanzee dressed in a shirt and sweater vest, scratching his head thinking. (primates)

Wild Words from the Animal Kingdom Vocabulary Quiz

tropical two-wing flying fish (Exocoetus volitans). Beloniformes, ichthyology, fish plates, marine biology, tropical two wing flying fish, tropical two-wing flyingfish, tropical two wing flyingfish, tropical fish, fishes, animals.

Know Your Fish Quiz

vulture. An adult bearded vulture at a raptor recovery center. The Gypaetus barbatus also known as the Lammergeier or Lammergeyer, is a bird of prey and considered an Old World vulture.

Animal Factoids

Lion (panthera leo)

Deadliest Animals Quiz

Dromedary camels (Camelus dromedarius). Animals, mammals.

Ultimate Animals Quiz

Sea otter (Enhydra lutris), also called great sea otter, rare, completely marine otter of the northern Pacific, usually found in kelp beds. Floats on back. Looks like sea otter laughing. saltwater otters

Animal Group Names

Mute swan with cygnet. (birds)

Match the Baby Animal to Its Mama Quiz

List

Hippopotamus in the water. Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Kenya

11 Fascinating Nile River Plants and Animals

animal. Amphibian. Frog. Anura. Ranidae. Frog in grass.

Abundant Animals: The Most Numerous Organisms in the World