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plural coelacanths
Either of two species of deep-water fish, Latimeria chalumnae of the Indian Ocean and Latimeria menadoensis of Indonesia. examples
Any lobe-finned fish in the order Coelacanthiformes, thought until 1938 to have been extinct for 70 million years. quotations examples
Among them were ancient relatives of the piranhas and those popular aquarium fish the tetras, along with garfish and freshwater coelacanths, known as mawsonids.
2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 32