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名詞

fishapod (plural fishapods)

1. (informal, paleontology) Any of several extinct creatures of the subclass Tetrapodomorpha having features both of fish and tetrapods, especially Tiktaalik.
   • 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 12:

     In these conditions, ‘fishapods’, able to do push-ups on proto-limbs to gulp fresh air from just above its river habitat, would have had an edge over those relying only on gills to extract meagre oxygen from the murky water.

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参照

• “fishapod”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• fishapod on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Tetrapodomorpha on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Tetrapodomorpha on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Tetrapodomorpha on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons