Hingemouth

Hingemouth

Taxobox
name = Hingemouth
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Actinopterygii
ordo = Gonorhynchiformes
familia = Phractolaemidae
genus = "Phractolaemus"
species = "P. ansorgii"
binomial = "Phractolaemus ansorgii"
binomial_authority = Boulenger, 1901The hingemouth, "Phractolaemus ansorgii", is a small freshwater fish that is found only in west central Africa, the sole member of the family Phractolaemidae.

The mouth can extend like a small trunk, thus the name, and the swim bladder can function as a lung, allowing the hingemouth to survive in oxygen-depleted environmnets.

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