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Definitions of coelacanth in various dictionaries:
noun - fish thought to have been extinct since the Cretaceous period but found in 1938 off the coast of Africa
COELACANTH - The coelacanths ( ( listen) SEE-l-kanth) constitute a now rare order of fish that includes two extant species in the genus Latimeria: the West Indian...
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| Mar 3 2017 The Times - Cryptic |
| Nov 22 2011 The Guardian - Cryptic crossword |
| Oct 2 2010 The Times - Concise |
| Aug 29 2001 The Times - Cryptic |
| Aug 22 1997 Irish Times (Crosaire) |
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| Since the rediscovery of this ancient fish in 1938, only a few hundred have been caught |
| Keith Stewart Thomson's "Living Fossil" tells of this primitive fish, long thought to be extinct |
| This fish was thought to be extinct millions of years ago until one was found off South Africa in 1938 |
| This primitive fish was believed extinct until caught off the African coast in 1938 |
| By an African trawler in 1938, this antediluvian fish |
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| Any of various mostly extinct fishes of the order Coelacanthiformes, known only in fossil form until a single living species, Latimeria chalumnae of African marine waters, was identified in 1938. |
| fish thought to have been extinct since the Cretaceous Period but found in 1938 off the coast of Africa |
| A large bony marine fish with a three-lobed tail fin and fleshy pectoral fins. It was known only from fossils until one was found alive in 1938 since then others have been found near the Comoro Islands in the Indian Ocean and off Sulawesi, Indonesia. |
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The coelacanths ( ( listen) SEE-l-kanth) constitute a now rare order of fish that includes two extant species in the genus Latimeria: the West Indian Ocean coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae) primarily found near the Comoro Islands off the east coast of Africa and the Indonesian coelacanth (Latimeria menadoensis). They follow the oldest-known living lineage of Sarcopterygii (lobe-finned fish and tetrapods), which means they are more closely related to lungfish, reptiles, and mammals than to the common ray-finned fishes. They are found along the coastlines of the Indian Ocean and Indonesia. Since there are only two species of coelacanth and both are threatened, it is the most endangered order of animals in the world. The West Indian Ocean coelacanth is a critically endangered species. * Coelacanths belong to the subclass Actinistia, a group of lobed-finned fish related to lungfish and certain extinct Devonian fish such as osteolepiforms, porolepiforms, rhizodonts, and Panderichthys. Coelacan |