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Noun Concept
Categories: Latimeriidae, Fish of Indonesia, Fish of Kenya, Critically endangered fauna of Africa, Fish of Madagascar
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coelacanth  Latimeria chalumnae  West Indian Ocean coelacanth  Coelacanthiformes
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Fish thought to have been extinct since the Cretaceous period but found in 1938 off the coast of Africa WordNet 3.0
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Fish thought to have been extinct since the Cretaceous period but found in 1938 off the coast of Africa WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
The West Indian Ocean coelacanth is a crossopterygian, one of two extant species of coelacanth, a rare order of vertebrates more closely related to lungfish and tetrapods than to the common ray-finned fishes. Wikipedia
Coelacanths are an ancient group of lobe-finned fish in the class Actinistia. Wikipedia
Species of fish Wikidata
Any lobe-finned fish in the order Coelacanthiformes, thought until 1938 to have been extinct for 70 million years. Wiktionary
Any lobe-finned fish in the order Coelacanthiformes. Wiktionary (translation)