World Species : Amia calva (Bowfin; Western mudfish; Speckled cat; Scaled ling; Lawyer; Marshfish; John A. Grindle; Grindle; Grinnel; Freshwater dogfish; Cypress trout; Cottonfish; Bonnetmouth; Blackfish; Beaverfish)

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Amia calva (Bowfin; Western mudfish; Speckled cat; Scaled ling; Lawyer; Marshfish; John A. Grindle; Grindle; Grinnel; Freshwater dogfish; Cypress trout; Cottonfish; Bonnetmouth; Blackfish; Beaverfish)

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Wikipedia Abstract

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 early ancestors.

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Attributes

Adult Length ^[2]	3.575 feet (109 cm)
Brood Dispersal ^[2]	In a nest
Brood Egg Substrate ^[2]	Polyphils
Brood Guarder ^[2]	Yes
Litter Size ^[2]	64,000
Maximum Longevity ^[2]	30 years
Water Biome ^[1]	Lakes and Ponds, Rivers and Streams

Adult Weight ^[3]	11.823 lbs (5.363 kg)

Diet ^[1]	Carnivore

Female Maturity ^[2]	4 years 3 months
Male Maturity ^[3]	4 years

Ecoregions

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Protected Areas

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Habitat Vegetation Classification

Name	Location	Website
Bald-cypress - Water Tupelo Floodplain Forest	United States (Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, Illinois, Arkansas, Texas, Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi)
Bald-cypress Floodplain Forest	United States (Oklahoma, South Carolina, Arkansas, North Carolina, Tennessee, Indiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, Kentucky, Illinois, Florida, Louisiana, Virginia, Missouri, Texas)
Water Tupelo Swamp Forest	United States (Florida, Tennessee, Alabama, South Carolina, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Texas, Illinois, Louisiana, Kentucky, Georgia)

Prey / Diet

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Predators

Alligator mississippiensis (Alligator, Gator, American alligator, Florida alligator, Mississippi alligator, Louisiana alligator.)	^[4]
Haliaeetus leucocephalus (Bald Eagle)	^[4]
Mycteria americana (Wood Stork)	^[4]

Consumers

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Parasitized by
Acanthocephalus dirus	^[5]
Apophallus venustus	^[5]
Azygia acuminata	^[5]
Azygia angusticauda	^[5]
Azygia longa	^[5]
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Diplostomum spathaceum	^[5]
Haplobothrium globuliforme	^[5]
Leptorhynchoides thecatus	^[5]
Leuceruthrus micropteri	^[5]
Macroderoides spiniferus	^[5]
Macroderoides trilobatus	^[5]
Macroderoides typicus	^[5]
Neoechinorhynchus cylindratus	^[5]
Neoechinorhynchus rutili	^[5]
Pomphorhynchus bulbocolli	^[5]
Pomphorhynchus lucyi	^[5]
Proteocephalus ambloplitis	^[5]
Proteocephalus filicollis	^[5]
Proteocephalus perplexus	^[5]
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Triaenophorus nodulosus	^[5]

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External References

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ ¹Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ ²Frimpong, E.A., and P. L. Angermeier. 2009. FishTraits: a database of ecological and life-history traits of freshwater fishes of the United States. Fisheries 34:487-495.
♦ ³de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ ⁴Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ ⁵Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London

Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database

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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0