AnimaliaacceptedfamilyAccepted

Lepidosirenidae

aestivating lungfishes·Bonaparte, 1841

GBIF:155300469

0datasets

0year

Descendants

Children

Species

Genera

PROFILE

Species Profile

Habitat

Freshwater

Export occurrence data

Darwin Core Archive (ZIP)

Common names used for this species across different languages and regions.

aestivating lungfisheseng

Vernacular (common) names are the everyday names used for a species in different languages and regions. A single species may have dozens of common names worldwide.

aestivating lungfishes

eng

Source: Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025).

CLASSIFICATION

Taxonomic Classification Tree

BiotaAnimaliaChordataVertebrataGnathostomataOsteichthyesSarcopterygiiDipneustiCeratodontiformesLepidosirenoideiLepidosirenidae

DOM

Biota868,823

Animalia624,570

Chordata52,812

SUB

Vertebrata49,207

INF

Gnathostomata49,030

Osteichthyes42,538

SUB

Lepidosirenidae

IDENTIFIERS

External Identifiers(1)

To Genbank

NCBI:txid7880

UNKNOWN

HIERARCHY

Child Taxa(1)

LepidosirenFitzinger, 1837

genus

Occurrences with images

CITATIONS

References(2)

Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2026). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. <em>California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco.</em> Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2026.

basis of record

Van Der Laan, R.; Eschmeyer, W. N.; Fricke, R. (2014). Family-group names of Recent fishes. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 3882(1): 1-230.

taxonomy source