Lepidosiren

The eleventh stage is formed by the primæval fish or selachii (sharks); the twelfth by the mud fish, of which there still live the protopterus in Africa, the lepidosiren in the tributaries of the ❋ Rudolf Schmid (N/A)

The genera Ornithorhynchus and lepidosiren, for example, would not have been less aberrant had each been represented by a dozen species, instead of as at present by a single one, or by two or three. ❋ Unknown (1909)

Owen considers the simple filamentary limbs of the lepidosiren as the “beginnings of organs which attain full functional development in higher vertebrates”; but, according to the view lately advocated by Dr. Günther, they are probably remnants, consisting of the persistent axis of a fin, with the lateral rays of branches aborted. ❋ Unknown (1909)

The surrounding mud then hardens into a dry ball; and these balls are dug out of the soil of the rice-fields by the natives, with the fish inside them, by which means many specimens of lepidosiren have been sent alive to Europe, embedded in their natural covering. ❋ Grant Allen (1873)

American mud-fish on the one hand and the wonderful lepidosiren on the other, it forms a true member of the long series by which the higher animals generally trace their descent from a remote race of marine ancestors. ❋ Grant Allen (1873)

"Grant a simple archetypal creature, like the mud-fish or lepidosiren ❋ Theodore Graebner (1913)