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Deutsche Quastenflosser {m} [zool.] / Quastenflosser {pl} Synonyme

Englische coelacanth Synonyme

coelacanth Definition

Coelacanth
(a.) Having hollow spines, as some ganoid fishes.

coelacanth Bedeutung

coelacanth
Latimeria chalumnae
fish thought to have been extinct since the Cretaceous period but found in off the coast of Africa
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The coelacanths constitute a now rare order of fish that includes two extant species in the genus Latimeria: the West Indian Ocean coelacanth primarily found near the Comoro Islands off the east coast of Africa and the Indonesian coelacanth . They follow the oldest known living lineage of Sarcopterygii , which means they are more closely related to lungfish, reptiles and mammals than to the common ray-finned fishes. They are found along the coastlines of the Indian Ocean and Indonesia. Since there are only two species of coelacanth and both are threatened, it is the most endangered order of animals in the world. The West Indian Ocean coelacanth is a critically endangered species.

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