salt-water lobe-finned fish

Some jawed bony fish {salt-water lobe-finned fish} {lobefin fish} had lobefins, allowing crawling onto shore. Later, stumps became appendages.

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Nasal passages had internal nares openings into windpipe inside body, allowing more efficient breathing, moist and filtered air, and alternative air paths.

types

Rhipidistians are extinct. Later, Rhipidistians evolved to amphibians. Coelacanth fish (Crossopterygii) still survive today and are like Rhipidistians.

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