|  | 1. | No one had studied the embryology of " Polypterus ". 
 
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|  | 2. | Zoo Basel have been successful in breeding Polypterus in captivity. 
 
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|  | 3. | At the time nothing was known about juvenile " Polypterus ". 
 
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|  | 4. | The third species successfully spawned in captivity was Polypterus endlicheri by Azuma in 1995. 
 
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|  | 5. | Polypterus have rarely been bred in captivity. 
 
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|  | 6. | The only breeding " Polypterus " specimens were in swampy parts of African rivers. 
 
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|  | 7. | There he did some fishing, catching many species but few " Polypterus ". 
 
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|  | 8. | On the systematic position of Polypterus. 
 
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|  | 9. | He spent most of his short career on the genus " Polypterus " ( bichir ). 
 
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|  | 10. | They reached the lake on 30 July and almost immediately found specimens of " Polypterus senegalus ". 
 
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