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IN view of the advantages of the South American lung-fish, Lepidosiren paradoxa, as a laboratory animal on account of the large size of its cells and of its vitality, the first record, so far as I am aware, of a successful attempt to breed the fish is of general interest.
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J. Graham Kerr, ” Plates of the Development of Lepidosiren paradoxa and Protopterus annectens”. Keibel's ” Normentafeln zur Entwicklungsgeschichte der Wirbeltiere”, 10; 1909.
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PARSONS, C. Breeding in Captivity of the South American Lung-fish. Nature 136, 954 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136954a0
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