RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 'Huxley says old Ganoids are much related to Lepidosiren which connects amphibians & Fishes' CUL-DAR80.B16. (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
NOTE: Darwin cited this in Descent 1: 204.
Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volumes CUL-DAR80-86 contain material for Darwin's book Descent of man (1871).
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Huxley says old Ganoids are much related to Lepidosiren which connects amphibians & Fishes
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Intercalary
(1) ornithorhynchus any amphibian affinities? (not strictly more than all lower animals.—
(2) Old Batrachians or amphibians in any degree intercalary with Reptilia— Huxley thinks not.
(Selachians are known to have reptilian affinities C.D)
(3) What Fishes are most Reptilian
See Academy— Ganoid—
Dipterus see X Decale on Class of Ganoid
very like Lepidosiren
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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