Dipnoi

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Translingual

Etymology

From Ancient Greek δίς (dís, double) + πνοή (pnoḗ, breathing).

Proper noun

Dipnoi

  1. the lungfishes and their extinct relatives
    1. A taxonomic subclass within the class Sarcopterygii.
    2. A taxonomic infraclass within the subclass Sarcopterygii.
    3. A taxonomic class within the superclass Sarcopterygii.[1]

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References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. PMID 25923521, →DOI