Coelacanth Latimeria chalumnae
When it was first discovered in 1938, the coelacanth was nicknamed 'old four legs' because its pectoral fins had strange, fleshy, limblike bases.
Coelacanth
Related Category: Vertebrate Zoology
see lobefin; fish.
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Coelacanths were thought to be extinct until 1938, when one was caught off the coast of South Africa. A long search for their home ended in 1952, when they were found in the Comoro Archipelago. The species of these coelacanths is Latimeria chalumnae.
Coelacanth Range
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Type: Fish Diet: Carnivore Average life span in the wild: Up to 60 years Size: 6.5 ft (2 m) Weight: 198 lbs (90 kg) Group name: School Protection status: Endangered Did you know?
The Coelacanth - a Morphological Mixed Bag
Tanzania coast excites seekers of "living fossil" - Confirmed populations have been found off the island state of Comoros and South Africa but experts think the search of Africa's long Indian Ocean coast has ...
Coelacanths are living fossils. The whole group was thought to be extinct until a specimen was caught in 1938. There are two living species: the coelacanth and the Sulawesi coelacanth. They inhabit deep water, so are rarely seen and difficult to film.
Coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae)
The coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae) is a 'living fossil' previously believed to have gone extinct at the time of the dinosaurs until... More 7 Images 2 Videos ...
COELACANTH
The Coelacanth (pronounced SEE-la-canth) is a primitive lobe-finned fish, (a bony fish and NOT a shark) that appeared about 350 million years ago. Coelacanth (meaning "hollow spine") is about 5 feet (1.5 m) long.
Coelacanths - Received from John in Barrington, Illinois.
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Includes coelacanths, lungfishes, gars, tarpon, eels, herring, catfishes, pike, salmon, lanternfishes, cod, anglerfishes, silversides, seahorses, scorpionfishes, perches, cichlids, tuna, flounders, & puffers
CARTILAGINOUS FISH ...
Fast-moving coelacanth was an evolutionary failure.
Images of a 'Rebel' Coelacanth
A lost branch of the coelacanth family tree boasted a forked tail.
A Coelacanth caught at Zanzibar
A Cohen's Whiptail trawled east of Newcastle
A collection of Limpets Cellana tramoserica
A Comb Wrasse at Magic Point
A Comet from the Australian Museum Fish Collection
A Common Bellowsfish trawled off Norah Head ...
Lungfish: African Lungfish (Protopterus annectens), Australian Lungfish (Neoceratodus forsteri) Ceratodontidae, Coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae), Ornate Bichir (Polypterus ornatipinnus) Polypteridae, Hags ...
Fish Conservation: As of 2006, the IUCN Red List describes 1,173 species of fish as being threatened with extinction. Included on this list are species such as Atlantic cod, Devil's Hole pupfish, coelacanths, and great white sharks.
5 m (14.6 ft), 750 kg (1,650 lb) specimen by Leighton Taylor showed it to be an entirely unknown type of shark, rivaling the coelacanth as the most sensational discovery in ichthyology during the 20th century.
Lobe-finned fishes hold special interest to evolutionary biologists because members of this group are thought to have given rise to the first four-legged land vertebrates (tetrapods). Modern lobe-finned fishes include lungfishes and coelacanths.
 See also: Shark, Whale, Reptile, Coral, Lungfish
  
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