HyperDic: latimeria_chalumnae

English > 1 sense of the expression Latimeria chalumnae:
NOUNanimalLatimeria chalumnae, coelacanthfish thought to have been extinct since the Cretaceous period but found in 1938 off the coast of Africa
English > Latimeria chalumnae: 1 sense > noun 1, animal
Meaningfish thought to have been extinct since the Cretaceous period but found in 1938 off the coast of Africa.
Synonymcoelacanth
Member ofLatimeria, genus Latimeriatype genus of the Latimeridae
Broadercrossopterygian, lobefin, lobe-finned fishAny fish of the order Crossopterygii
Spanishcelacanto
Catalancelacant, celacanto, Latimeria chalumnae, latimèria

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