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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.
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.
Others, e.g. [ 22, 23], reported a similar condition in bowfin, a circumstance later shown to be mistaken [ 14, 15].