African Lungfish (Protopterus aethiopicus)

Query: Leopard

Result: 1186^th of 1433

Subject:	African Lungfish (Protopterus aethiopicus)
Poster:	John White (john.white161@verizon.net)

Resolution: 1024x508 File Size: 127516 Bytes Upload Date: 2005:12:02 01:01:18

African Lungfish (Protopterus aethiopicus)1549

The marbled lungfish (Protopterus aethiopicus) is a lungfish of the family Protopteridae. Also known as the leopard lungfish, it is found in Africa. At 133 billion base pairs it has the largest known genome of any vertebrate and one of the largest of any organism on Earth, along with Polychaos dubium and Paris japonica at 670 billion and 150 billion, respectively. Order: Lepidosireniformes, Family: Protopteridae.

Leopard
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