Latimeria is a rare genus of fish which contains the two only living species of coelacanth. It includes two extant species: the West Indian Ocean coelacanth...

by only two extant marine species in the genus Latimeria: the West Indian Ocean coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae), primarily found near the Comoro Islands...

The West Indian Ocean coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae) (sometimes known as gombessa, African coelacanth, or simply coelacanth) is a crossopterygian, one...

The Indonesian coelacanth (Latimeria menadoensis, Indonesian: raja laut), also called Sulawesi coelacanth, is one of two living species of coelacanth...

Indian Ocean coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae) and the Indonesian coelacanth (Latimeria menadoensis), are found in the genus Latimeria. Coelacanths are thought...

Coelacanthiformes, of which the genus Latimeria was found to be extant in 1938. About that there is little debate – however, whether Latimeria resembles early members...

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...

genitive case. For example, the name of the coelacanth, Latimeria chalumnae which means "Latimeria of Chalumna", is a reference to the area near the mouth...

marine Latimeriidae, which contains the living coelacanths of the genus Latimeria, were also present in the Jurassic, having originated in the Triassic...

section of the written article explains that: "Since this chance sighting, Latimeria chalumnae have been found in several pockets in and around the Indian...

described, about a century before the discovery of the extant coelacanth Latimeria. The order Coelacanthiformes is named after it. The only definitive species...

Hodgson. Rather than a person, the noun may be related to a place, as with Latimeria chalumnae, meaning "of the Chalumna River". Another use of genitive nouns...

T6149A15362335.en. Retrieved 11 November 2021. Musick, J.A. (2000). "Latimeria chalumnae". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2000: e.T11375A3274618...

lapillus in the utriculus. In dipnoans there are only two otoliths and in Latimeria there is only one. However, most of the above synapomorphies can ultimately...

Permian, and finally dying out during the Jurassic. The modern-day genus Latimeria is often erroneously thought to be in this family, when, in fact, it is...

years ago come alive again." Smith would give it the scientific name Latimeria chalumnae after his friend and the Chalumna River, where it was found...

Early Triassic, just after the Great Dying. Coelacanths of the genus Latimeria still live today in the open oceans and retained many primordial features...

the Chalumna River became part of the scientific name of the species, Latimeria chalumnae. Historically the Chalumna River formed the northern border...

William E.; Hetherington, Thomas E. (28 May 1982). "The Rostal Organ of Latimeria chalumnae: Morphological Evidence of an Electroreceptive Function". Copeia...

"A comparative study of piscine defense: The scales of Arapaima gigas, Latimeria chalumnae and Atractosteus spatula". Journal of the Mechanical Behavior...

trait they share with the rest of the Clupeocephala and possibly the Latimeria (NOS2 and NOS3 have also yet to be detected in Elopomorpha). Sparks, John...

Griffith, R. W (1980). "Chemistry of the Body Fluids of the Coelacanth, Latimeria chalumnae". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 208...

PMID 14738502. Locket NA (July 1974). "The choroidal tapetum lucidum of Latimeria chalumnae". Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 186 (84): 281–290. Bibcode:1974RSPSB...

coelacanth. The average weight of the living West Indian Ocean coelacanth, (Latimeria chalumnae), is 80 kg (180 lb), and they can reach up to 2 m (6.6 ft) in...

fossils from 2 to 90 million years ago, rediscovered in 1994. Coelacanth (Latimeria), a member of a subclass (Actinistia) thought to have gone extinct 66 million...

direction about 277 million years ago and has a brain resembling that of the Latimeria). The dentition of lungfish is different from that of any other vertebrate...

the Latimeriidae (which contains the living coelacanths of the genus Latimeria) by the presence of ossified ribs, a coarse rugose texture on the dermatocranium...

Latimeria, a living member of a long-thought-extinct group of fish...

Chemistry Professor at Rhodes University, publishes his description of Latimeria chalumnae The Making of Territorial Apartheid : The Case of East London's...

african museum worker who found the first living coelacanth (the fish genus Latimeria). Rick Latimer, in the American soap opera Love of Life Harold Latimer...