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Coelacanths (/ˈsiːləkænθ/ SEE-lə-kanth) (order Coelacanthiformes) are an
ancient group of lobe-finned fish (Sarcopterygii) in the
class Actinistia. As...
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Indonesian coelacanth (Latimeria menadoensis, Indonesian: raja laut), also
called Sulawesi coelacanth, is one of two
living species of
coelacanth, identifiable...
- The West
Indian Ocean coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae) (sometimes
known as gombessa,
African coelacanth, or
simply coelacanth) is a crossopterygian, one...
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species of
coelacanth. It
includes two
extant species: the West
Indian Ocean coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae) and the
Indonesian coelacanth (Latimeria...
- only
known extant non-tetrapod
sarcopterygians are the two
species of
coelacanths and six
species of lungfishes.
Early lobe-finned
fishes are bony fish...
- who in 1938,
brought to the
attention of the
world the
existence of the
coelacanth, a fish
thought to have been
extinct for 65
million years. Courtenay-Latimer...
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stretch of
scaleless skin; in lobe-finned fish (Sarcopterygii) such as
coelacanths and lungfish, fins are
short rays
based around a
muscular central bud...
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university professor. He was the
first to
identify a
taxidermied fish as a
coelacanth, at the time
thought to be long extinct. Born in Graaff-Reinet, 26 September...
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Actinistia (
coelacanths) Rhipidistia...
- as a
Lazarus taxon has been
denied by some
authors in
recent years.
Coelacanths disappeared from the
fossil record some 80 million
years ago (in the...