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noun - primitive long-bodied carnivorous freshwater fish with a very long dorsal fin
noun - a freshwater fish
BOWFIN - Bowfin (Amia calva) are basal bony fishes related to gars in the infraclass Holostei. Common names include mudfish, mud pike, dogfish, griddle, grinn...
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| Carnivorous fish also called a grindle |
| Dull-green freshwater fish |
| Carnivorous freshwater fish |
| At front of boat, shortly discover fish |
| Predatory American freshwater fish |
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| Jan 16 2014 Universal |
| Nov 21 2011 The Telegraph - General Knowledge |
| Jun 2 2006 Eugene Sheffer - King Feature Syndicate |
| Jun 24 2003 The Times - Cryptic |
| Nov 13 1999 New York Times |
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| A primitive bony freshwater fish (Amia calva) of central and eastern North America, with a long spineless dorsal fin. Also called dogfish, mudfish. |
| a predatory American freshwater fish with a large blunt head and a long dorsal fin. It is able to survive for long periods out of water. |
| primitive long-bodies carnivorous freshwater fish with a very long dorsal fin found in sluggish waters of North America |
| A predatory American freshwater fish with a large blunt head and a long dorsal fin. It is able to survive for long periods out of water. |
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Bowfin (Amia calva) are basal bony fishes related to gars in the infraclass Holostei. Common names include mudfish, mud pike, dogfish, griddle, grinnel, swamp trout and choupique. They are regarded as taxonomic relicts, being the sole surviving species of the order Amiiformes which dates from the Jurassic to the Eocene, persisting to the present. Although bowfin are highly evolved, they are often referred to as "primitive fishes" because they have retained some morphological characteristics of their early ancestors. * Bowfin are demersal freshwater piscivores native to North America, and commonly found throughout much of the eastern United States, and in southern Ontario and Quebec. Fossil deposits indicate Amiiformes were once widespread in both freshwater and marine environments with a range that spanned across North and South America, Europe, Asia and Africa. Now their range is limited to much of the eastern United States and adjacent southern Canada, including the drainage basins of |