African Lungfish (Protopterus aethiopicus)

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Subject:	African Lungfish (Protopterus aethiopicus)
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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.

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