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

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

species, L. chalumnae (West Indian Ocean coelacanth) is listed as critically endangered. Separate populations of the Indonesian coelacanth are found in the...

species of coelacanth. It includes two extant species: the West Indian Ocean coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae) and the Indonesian coelacanth (Latimeria...

Ocean coelacanth was discovered in the Indian Ocean off South Africa in the 1930s and in the late 1990s another species, the Indonesian coelacanth, was...

groups of living species, the coelacanths and the lungfishes, the largest species is the West Indian Ocean coelacanth, reaching 2 m (6 ft 7 in) in length...

Latimeriidae is the only extant family of coelacanths, an ancient lineage of lobe-finned fish. It contains two extant species in the genus Latimeria,...

perches, scats, whiting, wrasses Subclass Actinistia (coelacanths) Order Coelacanthiformes, the coelacanth Subclass Dipnoi (lungfish) Order Ceratodontiformes...

"pregnancy", brooding eggs deposited in a ventral pouch by a female. The ocean sunfish is the heaviest bony fish in the world, in late 2021, Portuguese...

diphycercal. The coelacanth is one type of living lobe-finned fish. Both extant members of this group, the West Indian Ocean coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae)...