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Noun Concept
Categories: Fish of the Indian Ocean, Extant Early Devonian first appearances, Ovoviviparous fish, Latimeriidae, Marine fish of South Africa
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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
Definitions
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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)
IS A
crossopterygian
taxonomic group
PART OF
Latimeria
HAS KIND
Coelacanthus
Axelrodichthys
Wimania
Sassenia
Swenzia
+3 relations
IUCN CONSERVATION STATUS
critically endangered
PARENT TAXON
Crossopterygii
Latimeria
TAXON RANK
order
species
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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coelacanth, Latimeria chalumnae
Wikipedia
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coelacanth, West Indian Ocean coelacanth
Wikidata
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Coelacanthiformes, West Indian Ocean coelacanth
Wiktionary
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coelacanth
Wikipedia Redirections
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Actinistia, actinistian, Actinistians, African coelacanth, Caelocanth, Celecanth, Celocanth, Cilocanth, Coecelanth, Coelacant, Coelacanth in popular culture, Coelacanthiform, Coelacanthiformes, Coelacanthiforms, Coelacanthimorpha, Coelacanthini, coelacanths, Coelecant, coelecanth, Coelocanth, Coelocanthe, Colacanth, Coleocanth, Comoro coelacanth, Cœlacanth, gombessa, Latimeria chalumnae, latimeriid, Latimeriids, Latimerioid, Latimerioidei, Latimerioids, Malania anjouanae, Post Cretaceous Coelacanth fossils, Post KPG Coelacanth fossils, Post KPG Coelacanth fossils--, Sealacanth, Sealicanth, Silakanth, Xelacanth, Xelecanth, Xilocanth
Wikidata Alias
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African coelacanth, Coelacanth, Coelocanth, gombessa, Latimeria anjouanae, Latimeria chalumnae, Malania anjouanae

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