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    The West Indian Ocean coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae) (sometimes known as gombessa, African coelacanth, or simply coelacanth) is a crossopterygian, one...
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    species: the West Indian Ocean coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae) and the Indonesian coelacanth (Latimeria menadoensis). They follow the oldest known living...
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    only two extant marine species in the genus Latimeria: the West Indian Ocean coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae), primarily found near the Comoro Islands off...
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    tank in an aquarium. West Indian Ocean coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae) Erdmann, M. (2008). "Latimeria menadoensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species...
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    Indian Ocean coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae) and the Indonesian coelacanth (Latimeria menadoensis), are found in the genus Latimeria. Coelacanths are thought...
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    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. It would...
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    (Osteoglossidae) Bowfin (Amia calva) Coelacanth (the lobed-finned Latimeria menadoensis and Latimeria chalumnae) Gar (Lepisosteidae) Queensland lungfish (Neoceratodus...
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    comparative study of piscine defense: The scales of Arapaima gigas, Latimeria chalumnae and Atractosteus spatula". Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of...
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    E.; Hetherington, Thomas E. (28 May 1982). "The Rostal Organ of Latimeria chalumnae: Morphological Evidence of an Electroreceptive Function". Copeia...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • Chalumna River became part of the scientific name of the species, Latimeria chalumnae. Historically the Chalumna River formed the northern border of the...
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    T6149A15362335.en. Retrieved 11 November 2021. Musick, J.A. (2000). "Latimeria chalumnae". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2000: e.T11375A3274618. doi:10...
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    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 length...
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    the written article explains that: "Since this chance sighting, Latimeria chalumnae have been found in several pockets in and around the Indian Ocean...
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    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...
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    Chemistry Professor at Rhodes University, publishes his description of Latimeria chalumnae The Making of Territorial Apartheid : The Case of East London's Locations...
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    No No No Protopterus annectens Yes No No No No No ? No No No No Latimeria chalumnae No No No No No No No Yes No No No Polypterus bichir lapradei Yes...
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  • Leonard Brierley Smith, who named and described the living coelacanth Latimeria chalumnae. The JLB Smith Institute of Ichthyology received recognition as a...
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    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 is...
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  • 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...
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  • Chapala lamprey (Lampetra spadicea) West Indian Ocean coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae) Wikispecies has information related to IUCN Critically endangered...
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    Griffith, R. W (1980). "Chemistry of the Body Fluids of the Coelacanth, Latimeria chalumnae". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 208 (1172):...
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  • documents. Anatomie de Latimeria chalumnae, 1958–1978; 3 volumes (with Jean Anthony; Daniel Robineau) – Anatomy of Latimeria chalumnae. BnF Notice nécrologique...
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    PMID 11525282. Chemistry of the body fluids of the coelacanth, Latimeria chalumnae Compagno, Leonard; Dando, Marc; Fowler, Sarah (2005). Sharks of the...
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    comparative study of piscine defense: The scales of Arapaima gigas, Latimeria chalumnae and Atractosteus spatula". Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of...
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    remains lie a mere 100 km from the mouth of the Chalumna River, where Latimeria chalumnae was first found in 1938. In keeping with the use of river names,...
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    been believed to be extinct for over 60 million years. It was named latimeria chalumnae in her honour. 1939: Austrian-Swedish physicist Lise Meitner, along...
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  • William E.; Hetherington, Thomas E. (1982). "The Rostal Organ of Latimeria chalumnae: Morphological Evidence of an Electroreceptive Function". Copeia...
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    36.9 Microcaecilia unicolor Caecilian 352 XP_030077474.1 266 38.1 Latimeria chalumnae Coelacanth 414 XP_005989300.1 254 34.4 Amphiprion ocellaris Clownfish...
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