Marbled lungfish

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Marbled lungfish
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Class: Sarcopterygii
Subclass: Dipnoi
Order: Lepidosireniformes
Family: Protopteridae
Genus: Protopterus
Species: P. aethiopicus
Binomial name
Protopterus aethiopicus
Subspecies
  • P. a. aethiopicus
  • P. a. congicus
  • P. a. mesmaekersi

The marbled lungfish, Protopterus aethiopicus, is a lungfish of the family Protopteridae. Protopterus aethiopicus has the largest genome of any animal on Earth. [1]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Animal Genome Size Database:: Statistics


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