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Coelacanth eggs are large, with only a thin layer of membrane to protect them. Embryos hatch within the female and eventually are born alive, which is a rarity in fish. This was only discovered when the American Museum of Natural History dissected its first coelacanth specimen in 1975 and found it pregnant with five embryos. [69]
Marjorie Eileen Doris Courtenay-Latimer (24 February 1907 – 17 May 2004) was a South African museum official, who in 1938, brought the existence of the coelacanth, a fish thought to have been extinct for 65 million years, to the attention of the world.
First photographs of coelacanths in their natural habitat, by Hans Fricke off Grand Comore. 1991: First coelacanth identified near Mozambique, 24 kilometers offshore NE of Quelimane. 1995: First recorded coelacanth on Madagascar, 30 kilometers S of Toliara. 1997 (September 18) New species of coelacanth found in Indonesia. 2000
The West Indian Ocean coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae) is allocated to the genus Latimeria, which it shares with one other species, the Indonesian coelacanth (Latimeria menadoensis). [24] From September 1997 – July 1998, two coelacanth fish were discovered off the coast of Manado Tua Island, Sulawesi, Indonesia, different from the Latimeria ...
The coelacanths were thought to have gone extinct , until a living specimen belonging to the order was discovered in 1938.. A living fossil is a deprecated term for an extant taxon that phenotypically resembles related species known only from the fossil record.
Serenichthys kowiensis is a fossil species of coelacanth described in 2015 from near Grahamstown in South Africa. Some 30 complete specimens of this new species were found in the black shale lagerstätte on Waterloo Farm, preserved by the mud of an ancient estuary dating back to the Famennian stage of the Late Devonian some 360
Latimeriidae is the only extant family of coelacanths, an ancient lineage of lobe-finned fish. It contains two extant species in the genus Latimeria , found in deep waters off the coasts of southern Africa and east-central Indonesia .
The Indonesian coelacanth (Latimeria menadoensis, Indonesian: raja laut), also called Sulawesi coelacanth, [3] [4] is one of two living species of coelacanth, identifiable by its brown color. Latimeria menadoensis is a lobe-finned fish belonging to the class Actinistia and order Coelacanthiformes, classified under the family Latimeriidae and ...