Bowfins
Amia
Bowfin (Amia calva) are basal bony fishes related to gars in the infraclass Holostei. Common names include mudfish, mud pike, dogfish, griddle, grinnel, cypress trout and choupique. They are regarded as taxonomic relicts, being the sole surviving species of the order Amiiformes which dates from the Jurassic to the Eocene, persisting to the present. Although bowfin are highly evolved, they are often referred to as "primitive fishes" because they have retained some morphological characteristics of their...
2 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 2 known species
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Illustrated Compendium of Materia Medica (Vol. 12)
吳其濬 · 1848 · p.107
History of Monsters
Ulisse Aldrovandi · 1642 · p.861
Treasury of Medical Matters of New Spain
Francisco Hernández · 1651 · p.305
Treasury of Medical Matters of New Spain
Francisco Hernández · 1651 · p.916
Thesaurus of Medical Things of New Spain, or History of Mexican Plants, Animals, and Minerals
Francisco Hernández; Nardo Antonio Recchi (ed.) · 1651 · p.903
Illustrated Compendium of Materia Medica (Vol. 30)
吳其濬 · 1848 · p.117
Illustrated Compendium of Materia Medica (Vol. 30)
吳其濬 · 1848 · p.121
Complete Treatise on Agricultural Administration
Xu Guangqi · 1909 · p.744
History of the Plants of New Spain, Volume 3
Francisco Hernández (1517-1587) · 1946 · p.350
Thesaurus of Medical Things of New Spain, or History of Mexican Plants, Animals, and Minerals
Francisco Hernández; Nardo Antonio Recchi (ed.) · 1651 · p.286
New Genera of Plants
Pier Antonio Micheli · 1729 · p.299
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 58615.