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He could find that the mudfish is called bowfin in textbooks, that in south Arkansas and north Louisiana it is written grindle or grinnel but always pronounced [` grinl ]; that in south Louisiana it is called green cypress trout, grinnel , and choupique , which in English is pronounced [š]; that in northwest Florida the word grindle is sometimes pronounced [`grindl].
The bowfin, Amia calva, and the garpike, Lepisosteus osseus, are frequently compared to each other in their anatomical characters, as they are both basal actinopterygians.
Others, e.g. [ 22, 23], reported a similar condition in bowfin, a circumstance later shown to be mistaken [ 14, 15].
Garpike have three developmental characters that immediately separate them from bowfin: 1) they show meroblastic cleavage, 2) they possess a well-defined yolk syncytial layer, and 3) events of gastrulation produce a pit associated with the dorsal blastoderm margin.
For example, development of the sturgeon is relatively frog-like and the bowfin is much more similar to teleosts in its gastrulation pattern.