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Australian Lungfish
Neoceratodus forsteri
The Australian lungfish is the most conservative of the six surviving lungfish species and the least like the popular image of one. It has a single lung, not the paired lungs of the African and South American species, and it does not aestivate: it cannot survive being dried out,…
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- Unlike African and South American lungfish, the Australian Lungfish cannot survive prolonged droughts by burrowing into mud.
- A captive Australian lungfish nicknamed Granddad lived at Chicago's Shedd Aquarium from 1933 until 2017, making him around 95 years old and the oldest fish in any aquarium. Unlike almost every other lungfish, it gives its eggs no parental care at all, laying them among water plants like frogspawn and leaving. Its scales are unusually large and overlapping, and it has an oddly placid temperament — it can be hand-fed and will tolerate being touched.
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