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Mudskippers (Periophthalmus gracilis shown) are among the most land adapted of fish (excepting, from a cladistic perspective, tetrapods), and are able to spend days moving about out of water.
Amphibious fish are fish that are able to leave water for extended periods of time. About 11 distantly related genera of fish are considered amphibious. This suggests that many fish genera independently evolved amphibious traits, a process known as convergent evolution. These fish use a range of methods for land movement, such as lateral undulation, tripod-like walking (using paired fins and tail), and jumping. Many of these methods of locomotion incorporate multiple combinations of pectoral-, pelvic-, and tail-fin movement.
Many ancient fish had lung-like organs, and a few, such as the lungfish and bichir, still do. Some of these ancient "lunged" fish were the ancestors of tetrapods. In most recent fish species, though, these organs evolved into the swim bladders, which help control buoyancy. Having no lung-like organs, modern amphibious fish and many fish in oxygen-poor water use other methods, such as their gills or their skin to breathe air. Amphibious fish may also have eyes adapted to allow them to see clearly in air, despite the refractive index differences between air and water.
Amphibiousfish are fish that are able to leave water for extended periods of time. About 11 distantly related genera of fish are considered amphibious...
and breed in water) Amphibious caterpillar Amphibiousfish, a fish that is able to leave water for extended periods of time Amphibious insect, an insect...
Semiaquatic animals include: Vertebrates Amphibiousfish; also several types of normally fully aquatic fish such as the grunion and plainfin midshipman...
or frogfish. Most commonly, walking fish are amphibiousfish. Able to spend longer times out of water, these fish may use a number of means of locomotion...
Mudskippers are any of the 23 extant species of amphibiousfish from the subfamily Oxudercinae of the goby family Oxudercidae. They are known for their...
nonstandard fish locomotion include fish "walking" along the sea floor, such as the handfish or frogfish. Most commonly, walking fish are amphibiousfish. Able...
swimming, for example, flying fish use pectoral fins for gliding flight above water surface, and frogfish and many amphibiousfishes use pectoral and/or pelvic...
As labyrinth fishes, they possess a labyrinth organ, a structure in the fish's head which allows it to breathe atmospheric oxygen. Fish of this family...
several species of frogs that walk. Unusual examples can be found among amphibiousfish, such as the mudskipper, which drag themselves across land on their...
makes a wiggling motion with snakelike movements to traverse land. This fish normally lives in slow-moving and often stagnant waters in ponds, swamps...
bioindicator species of estuary habitats. Amphibiousfish Androdioecy Climbing gourami Mudskipper Walking catfish Walking fish NatureServe; Lyons, T.J. (2019)....
The northern snakehead (Channa argus) is a species of snakehead fish native to temperate East Asia, in China, Russia, North Korea, and South Korea. Their...
rostrata) is a facultative catadromous fish found on the eastern coast of North America. Freshwater eels are fish belonging to the elopomorph superorder...
it. Feeding occurs mainly at night, via scent and prey consists of worms, fish (including ones too big to eat without biting off chunks), mollusks such...
is a species of fish in the Channidae family and is found in the Karnaphuli River in Mizoram, India. The species is an amphibiousfish. Froese, Rainer;...
[citation needed] Amphibiousfish are polyphyletic, not paraphyletic. Although they appear similar, several different groups of amphibiousfishes such as mudskippers...
A fish (pl.: fish or fishes) is an aquatic, anamniotic, gill-bearing vertebrate animal with swimming fins and a hard skull, but lacking limbs with digits...
example, composed a treatise on amphibiousfish. The Romans, although less devoted to science, wrote extensively about fish. Pliny the Elder, a notable Roman...
in the sides of the pharynx. Fish from multiple groups can live out of the water for extended time periods. Amphibiousfish such as the mudskipper can live...
land snails and slugs) Chordates (tetrapods; semiterrestrial members: amphibiousfish) Roundworms, gastrotrichs, tardigrades, rotifers and some smaller species...
humans as food, bait, ornamental fishes, and for medicine. It is important to local indigenous peoples as a food fish and can also be found in the aquarium...
preserved in the fossil record, but study of mudskippers (a group of amphibiousfish species that evolved blinking independently from other tetrapod species...
Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2005). "Channallabes apus" in FishBase. November 2005 version. BBC NewsAfrican fish leaps for land bugs National Geographic Catfish...
Males can reach a maximum total length of 8 centimetres (3.15 inches). These fish feed primarily on benthic algae, which they consume by scraping off rocky...
Periophthalmodon septemradiatus (F. Hamilton, 1822) Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). Species of Periophthalmodon in FishBase. June 2013 version. v t e...
Common names of fish can refer to a single species; to an entire group of species, such as a genus or family; or to multiple unrelated species or groups...
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