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    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...
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    by only two extant marine species in the genus Latimeria: the West Indian Ocean coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae), primarily found near the Comoro Islands...
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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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    The Indonesian coelacanth (Latimeria menadoensis, Indonesian: raja laut), also called Sulawesi coelacanth, is one of two living species of coelacanth...
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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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  • 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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    described, about a century before the discovery of the extant coelacanth Latimeria. The order Coelacanthiformes is named after it. The only definitive species...
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    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...
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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...
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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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    T6149A15362335.en. Retrieved 11 November 2021. Musick, J.A. (2000). "Latimeria chalumnae". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2000: e.T11375A3274618...
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    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...
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    "A comparative study of piscine defense: The scales of Arapaima gigas, Latimeria chalumnae and Atractosteus spatula". Journal of the Mechanical Behavior...
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    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...
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    William E.; Hetherington, Thomas E. (28 May 1982). "The Rostal Organ of Latimeria chalumnae: Morphological Evidence of an Electroreceptive Function". Copeia...
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    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...
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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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    marine Latimeriidae, which contains the living coelacanths of the genus Latimeria, were also present in the Jurassic, having originated in the Triassic...
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    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...
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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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    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...
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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...
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    Early Triassic, just after the Great Dying. Coelacanths of the genus Latimeria still live today in the open oceans and retained many primordial features...
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    Diplocercides Latimeria...
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    in the Phanerozoic; coelacanths still live today in the oceans (genus Latimeria). The Rhipidistians, whose ancestors probably lived in estuaries, migrated...
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    the Latimeriidae (which contains the living coelacanths of the genus Latimeria) by the presence of ossified ribs, a coarse rugose texture on the dermatocranium...
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    section of the written article explains that: "Since this chance sighting, Latimeria chalumnae have been found in several pockets in and around the Indian...
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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...
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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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    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...
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