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  Vertebrate Zoology -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Dipnoi and the Coelacanthimorpha share some peculiarities, such as internal nares, well-developed lungs in some forms, and fleshy paired fins with a bony internal skeleton.
The Coelacanthimorpha includes two major groups: the Rhipidistia and the Coelacanthimorpha.
The rhipidistians were freshwater carnivores with teeth like the first amphibians and fin skeletons that could easily have evolved into the tetrapod limb.
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 coelacanthimorpha - Want to know more about coelacanthimorpha?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Read about coelacanthimorpha in the free online encyclopedia and dictionary.
Coelacanthimorpha is a group of Sarcopterygii animals that contains: Coelacanthiformes Coelacanthidae Latimeria Synonim: Actinistia Fact-index.com financially supports the Wikimedia Foundation.
[ edit ] Taxonomic notes Coelacanthimorpha or Actinistia are sometimes used to designate the group of Sarcopterygian fishes that contains the...
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 Michael's Zoology Information Site - Animal Facts - Questions and Answers about Animals
What I need is the proper spelling and pronunciation of this fish and as much background as you can give me on the discovery of the not-so-extinct fish.
There is one surviving member of the Coelacanthimorpha, a group of Sacopterygiian fishes that many scientists feel gave rise to the first terrestrial vertebrates during the Devonian Period.
They were thought to be extinct since the end of the Cretaceous until one appeared in a deep trolling net hauled up from a fishing boat in 1938 off the coast of South Africa.
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 The South African Institute of Aquatic Biodiversity   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The scientific discovery of Latimeria chalumnae in 1938 caused a sensation in the scientific world because it is the only living member of a very old group of fishes, the actinistians (Coelacanthimorpha).
The Coelacanthimorpha and lungfishes are separate side-branches of the primitive fish group that gave rise to the amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals.
Although Latimeria is not a 'missing link' in the story of evolution, it is the sole survivor of a line of development that otherwise became extinct.
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