NOUN | animal | Latimeria chalumnae, coelacanth | fish thought to have been extinct since the Cretaceous period but found in 1938 off the coast of Africa |
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Meaning | fish thought to have been extinct since the Cretaceous period but found in 1938 off the coast of Africa. | |
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Synonym | coelacanth | |
Member of | Latimeria, genus Latimeria | type genus of the Latimeridae |
Broader | crossopterygian, lobefin, lobe-finned fish | Any fish of the order Crossopterygii |
Spanish | celacanto | |
Catalan | celacant, celacanto, Latimeria chalumnae, latimèria |
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