Obligate air-breathing (Ref. 126274); Obligate air-breathing (Ref. 126274). Found in marginal swamps and backwaters of rivers and lakes (Ref. 30488). Carnivorous, food includes molluscs (Ref. 30488), but also frogs, fish and seed (Ref. 13851). In Kenya it feeds mostly on plant material, like roots (Ref. 30558). Strongly associated with life of aquatic plants in terms of breeding and feeding ecologies; nests are made in weedy areas (Ref. 30558). Normally lives on flood plains and secretes, when these dry up during the dry season, a thin slime around itself which dries into a fragile cocoon; normally hibernates from the end of one wet season to the start of the next, buut can live in its cocoon for over a year (Ref. 3023, 30558). For hibernating the fish literally chews its way into the substrate ejecting mud out of its gill openings, reaching a depth of 3-25 cm below the surface depending on the length of the fish; the lungfish wriggles around, thereby hollowing out a bulb-shaped chamber and coming to rest with its nose pointing upward; they breathe air at the mouth of the chamber's tube and then sink back into the expanded part of the chamber (Ref. 36739). As the water disappears the respiratory trips cease; air reaches the fish via the tube to the surface (Ref. 36739). Under aquatic conditions this lungfish can survive more than three and half years of starvation, showing the same behavior - no motion and same body posture - as an aestivating specimen (Ref. 51339).
發現於河川與湖泊的沼澤邊緣與洄水區了。 (參考文獻 30488) 它是相連的強烈地以水生植物的生活根據繁殖與進食生態學.(參考文獻 30558) 巢在雜草叢生的區域被做。 (參考文獻 30558) 它通常靠沖積平原生活而且當這些變乾, 在乾季的時候的時候，它在它本身周圍分泌一個細的黏液那一個乾燥後成為一個纖細的囊袋; 它能在這種狀態中存在超過一年, 雖然通常它過冬只從一個濕季末到下一個的初始.(參考文獻 3023, 參考文獻 30558) 為照字面上地過冬魚咀嚼它的方法進入從它的鰓裂正在逐放泥的底部; 它可能在依據魚的長度而定的底部之下達到深度 3-25 公分; 肺魚蠕動周圍,藉此洞出一個球莖-形狀的腔室而且來到休息用它的方向朝上的鼻子; 他們進入腔室的被擴大的部份之內然後洗滌槽背面在腔室的管的嘴巴呼吸空氣。 (參考文獻 36739) 當水消失，呼吸的旅行停止; 空氣經由管對表面達到魚。 (參考文獻 36739) 也在水生的情況，這一個肺魚能存活超過三與飢餓的半年; 它顯示相同的行為 - 沒有運動與相同的身體姿勢 - 作為一個夏眠標本.(參考文獻 51339) 肉食性, 食物包括軟體動物 (參考文獻 30488), 也青蛙，魚與種子;(參考文獻 13851) 在肯亞，它大部分捕食植物, 像根.(參考文獻 30558)
Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref.
82804): PD
50 = 0.6602 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00389 (0.00155 - 0.00977), b=3.10 (2.89 - 3.31), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this (Sub)family-body shape (Ref.
93245).
營養階層 (Ref.
69278): 3.8 ±0.64 se; based on food items.
回復力 (Ref.
120179): 低的, 最小族群倍增時間4.5 - 14 年 (tmax = 23 (in captivity); Fec < 1,000).
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref.
59153): High vulnerability (60 of 100).
