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  FAQs - ACEP - African Coelacanth Ecosystem Programme
In 1839 the Swiss scientist Louis Agassiz described a fossil fish in his book Poissons Fossiles and called it Coelacanthus because the spines that project from the back bone to the caudal fin rays were hollow (from the Greek koilos, meaning cavity or space, and akantha, thorn).
A Triassic fossil coelacanth named Whiteia africana was discovered in the Free State, and the original specimen is on public display at the South African Museum in Cape Town.
The Coelacanthiformes and lungfishes are separate side-branches of the primitive fish group that gave rise to the amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals.
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 Ichthyology   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The order Coelacanthiformes contains the single family Coelacanthidae, which contains the single genus Latimeria.
The first coelacanth fossils appeared in rocks from the Devonian period and continued to be found in rocks formed up to 70 million years ago.
Modern coelacanths have nonfunctional fat-filled swim bladders, unlike the coelacanth fossils from the Cretaceous Period.
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 Coelacanth - EvoWiki
The Coelacanths (derived from Coelacanthiformes) are today represented by a single genus, Latimeria, living in deep water off the coast of Madagascar.
Coelacanths first appear in the medial Devonian and underwent an extensive adaptive radiation in the late Paleozoic, with the group reaching its evolutionary zenith during the Triassic (Schaeffer 1952).
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 Coelacanthiformes - Bony - Fish - Chordata - Animalia - Flora and Fauna - Biology - Science   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
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 Directory - Science: Biology: Flora and Fauna: Animalia: Chordata: Fish: Bony: Coelacanthiformes
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South African Coelacanth Conservation and Genome Resource Programme  · Information about the coelacanth and its habitat in Sodwana Bay and around the world.
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 Coelacanthiformes
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 Gombessa - educational resources
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Record List: V000MIC672 LAL356 A, Coelacanthiformes, Latimeria chalumnae.
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 The South African Institute of Aquatic Biodiversity   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
A coelacanth (pronounced 'seel-uh-kanth', 'selakant' in Afrikaans) is a large marine lobe-finned fish belonging to the Order Coelacanthiformes, a group of primitive bony fishes.
In 1836 Louis Agassiz described a fossil fish in his book Poissons Fossiles and called it
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 Glossary Searched Term   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Fishes of the Family Latimeriidae, Order Coelacanthiformes (coelacanths).
See FishBase for more information on this Family.
Poissons de la famille des Latimeriidae, ordre des Coelacanthiformes (coelacanthes).
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 Definition of coelacanth - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Etymology: ultimately from Greek koilos hollow + akantha spine -- more at
: any of an order (Coelacanthiformes) of lobe-finned fishes known chiefly from Paleozoic and Mesozoic fossils
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