Bowfin
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bowfin-216-4391088
title:
Bowfin
text:
The bowfin is a bony fish, native to North America. Common names include mudfish, mud pike, dogfish, grindle, grinnel, swamp trout, and choupique. It is regarded as a relict, being one of only two surviving species of the Halecomorphi, a group of fish that first appeared during the Early Triassic, around 250 million years ago. The bowfin is often considered a "primitive fish" because they have retained some morphological characteristics of their early ancestors. It is one of two species in the g
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wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Bony fish related to gars in the infraclass Holosteii
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowfin
date created:
2003-06-13T06:25:13Z
date modified:
2024-09-12T22:23:31Z
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image:
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fields total:
13
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16