The Australian mudfish (Ceratodus) is not known to hibernate or aestivate.
The aestivating burrow of the Brazilian mudfish (Lepidosiren) is similar, except that the lid is perforated with several apertures.
To this day there survive certain mudfish which enable us to understand very clearly the method by which the vertebrated land animals worked their way out of the water.
The mudfish would have seemed then a poor refugee from the too crowded and aggressive life of the sea.
Thus the African mudfish may spend half the year encased in the mud, and many minute crustaceans can survive being dried up for years.
The Queensland mudfish is an antiquity, and there has not been much change in its lineage for millions of years.
Forming New Habits There is a well-known mudfish of Australia, Neoceratodus by name, which has turned its swim-bladder into a lung and comes to the surface to spout.
Just where the sides meet is a long, irregular fissure, out of which huge bass, pike, jack and mudfish are constantly emerging, and into which they retreat when disturbed.
Yet, peering into the depth, you catch a glimpse of the black head and beady white eyes of a mudfish at least two feet long, and presently of the silvery side of a three-pound bass which glides across the opening.
From these the ganoids and then the lung-bearing mudfish must have been gradually developed.
Why the devil do you wriggle like a mudfish going to the pot," howled Zagloba, "and speak of a misfortune as if you were glad of it?
God knows that such scurvy fellows have nothing to do with the Kmitas nor with the Billeviches, just as a mudfish has nothing to do with a pike, though this is a fish and that also.
Let the mudfish remain in these swamps of Shchuchyn, but we will go to Byalystok, where perhaps we shall find other fish.
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