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