coelacanth
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See also: cœlacanth
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Etymology[edit]
From the New Latin genus name Coelacanthus, from Ancient Greek κοῖλος (koîlos, “hollow”) + ἄκανθα (ákantha, “spine”), referring to the hollow caudal fin rays of the first fossil specimen described and named by Louis Agassiz in 1839.[1]
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coelacanth (plural coelacanths)
- Either of two species of deep-water fish, Latimeria chalumnae of the Indian Ocean and Latimeria menadoensis of Indonesia.
- Any lobe-finned fish in the order Coelacanthiformes, thought until 1938 to have been extinct for 70 million years.
- 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 32:
- Among them were ancient relatives of the piranhas and those popular aquarium fish the tetras, along with garfish and freshwater coelacanths, known as mawsonids.
Translations[edit]
either of two species of deep-water fish
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any lobe-finned fish in the order Coelacanthiformes
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References[edit]
- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “coelacanth”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Further reading[edit]
- coelacanth on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Latimeria chalumnae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Latimeria on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Latimeria chalumnae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
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