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Coelacanth - Oceana
The coelacanth, found in the deep waters off southeastern Africa, is a nocturnal predator and considered critically endangered. Learn more and how to protect coelacanths.See details»
African Coelacanth - NOAA Fisheries
The African coelacanth belongs to an ancient lineage of bony, lobe-finned fish. The species was believed to have gone extinct over 65 million years ago but was rediscovered off the coast of South Africa in 1938. ... A .gov website belongs …See details»
Coelacanth | Smithsonian Ocean
Anatomy, Diversity, and Evolution Anatomy. Numerous characteristics are unique to the coelacanth among living fishes. Among them is the presence of a "rostral organ" in the snout that is part of the electrosensory system, and an …See details»
Coelacanth - Wikipedia
Coelacanths (order Coelacanthiformes) are an ancient group of lobe-finned fish (Sarcopterygii) in the class Actinistia. As sarcopterygians, they are more closely related to lungfish and tetrapods (which includes amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals) than to ray-finned fish. Well-represented in both freshwater and marine fossils since the Devonian, th…See details»
Coelacanth - Smithsonian Institution
Jun 7, 2013 Coelacanths are now known to live in temperate waters in the "twilight zone," generally 500-800 feet (152-243 meters), off steep rocky slopes of volcanic islands. The Smithsonian's Division of Fishes, which includes the …See details»
The Curious Case of the Coelacanth - Ocean Conservancy
Jul 16, 2019 Coelacanths are long-lived, deep-water species that can grow to over six feet and weigh almost 200 pounds. But it wasn’t just the coelacanth’s size that intrigued scientists: they have a number of unusual characteristics …See details»
Coelacanth | Description, Habitat, Discovery, & Facts
Oct 30, 2024 Modern coelacanths belong to the family Latimeriidae. The name refers to their hollow fin spines (Greek: koilos, “hollow,” and akantha, “spine”).The modern coelacanths are bigger than most fossil coelacanths and are powerful …See details»
ADW: Latimeria chalumnae: INFORMATION
Coelacanths have a rostral organ in their snouts that is believed to have an electroperceptive function. They also possess color vision that is strongly adapted to a deep water environment. Most visible light at that depth has a wavelength …See details»
Coelacanths: the fish that 'outdid' the Loch Ness Monster
Coelacanths were first described by Louis Agassiz in 1836 from a 260-million-year-old fossilised fish tail. He named the genus Coelacanthus. Many more fossil coelacanths have been found since, ranging in age from 409-66 million years …See details»
A Late Devonian coelacanth reconfigures actinistian phylogeny
Sep 12, 2024 The living coelacanth Latimeria (Sarcopterygii: Actinistia) is an iconic, so-called ‘living fossil’ within one of the most apparently morphologically conservative vertebrate groups. …See details»
Complete HOX cluster characterization of the …
Dec 18, 2009 The goals of the project were to (i) definitively identify all of the Hox genes in the four HOX clusters of the coelacanth and determine their respective genomic organizations; (ii) compare and contrast the HOX cluster …See details»
Latimeria - Wikipedia
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 (Latimeria chalumnae) and the …See details»
SAVING THE COELACANTH | Science - AAAS
Jun 8, 2007 The coelacanth, a rare fish that hasn't changed significantly in 300 million years, seems to be popping up all over. So much, in fact, that it's in danger of being overfished. On …See details»
Discovery and Preservation of a Coelacanth | AMNH
The first coelacanths appear in the fossil record as far back as 415-360 million years ago, when they shared the ancient oceans with ancestors of modern sharks, rays, and other fishes. As …See details»
Coelacanths - National Geographic
Coelacanths are elusive, deep-sea creatures, living in depths up to 2,300 feet below the surface. They can be huge, reaching 6.5 feet or more and weighing 198 pounds. Scientists estimate …See details»
Coelacanth - American Oceans
The coelacanth is a deep-sea fish that belongs to the group of lobe-finned fishes. It is a vertebrate that has a unique set of physical characteristics that distinguish it from other fish species.. The …See details»
Exceptional new fish fossil sparks rethink of how Earth’s geology ...
Sep 12, 2024 A modern coelacanth in the sea off the coast of South Africa. Bruce Henderson / Wikimedia, CC BY. Later, during the age of dinosaurs which began around 250 million years …See details»
The African coelacanth genome provides insights into tetrapod
Apr 17, 2013 Coelacanth protein-coding genes are significantly more slowly evolving than those of tetrapods, unlike other genomic features. ... Organization of the mouse HOX-D locus and …See details»
Coelacanthiformes (Coelacanths) - Encyclopedia.com
Evolution and systematics. The living coelacanths are often celebrated as the most unusual case and important example of animal evolution. The first fossil coelacanths were recognized in …See details»
The coelacanth story, Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer, JLB Smith
The coelacanth display in the Knysna Museum’s Angling Museum (in the Old Gaol), traces through photos, a life-size model of a coelacanth, and various artefacts the story of how the …See details»