Bowfin, also called the ruddy bowfin, mudfish, mud pike, dogfish, grindle, grinnel, swamp trout or choupique, is a ray-finned fish native to North America. Regarded as a relict, it is one of only two surviving species of the Halecomorphi, a group that first appeared during the Early Triassic around 250 million years ago, and it is often considered a living fossil for retaining morphological characteristics of its early ancestors; its closest living relatives are the gars, with the two groups united in the clade Holostei.
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Classification
System (Realm) Living or Extinct Scientific Name Conservation Status Connections
Child Taxon Of
Source Bowfin (Wikidata)
In Biome
Source Bowfin (Amia calva) (Wikipedia)
In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: Japan, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: North America, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: United States, found in there.
Sources
1. Bowfin (Wikipedia)
2. GBIF Species API
3. Bowfin (Wikidata)
Wikidata- Wikidata Q491934 (P225 taxon name)
- Wikidata P141 (IUCN conservation status) claim, entity QID Q491934
Statements section, conservation status (P141)
IUCN Red List conservation status (Wikidata property P141): least concern.
- Child Taxon Of: Actinopterygii, Wikidata parent-taxon (P171) chain
View the Source Bowfin (Amia calva) (Wikipedia)
In Biome: Freshwater, Wikipedia intro: "of bowfins are gars, with the two groups being united in the clade Holostei. Bowfins are demersal, freshwater piscivores, commonly found throughout much of the..."View the Source Reader Challenges (0)
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