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Latimeria chalumnae

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Noun1.Latimeria chalumnae - fish thought to have been extinct since the Cretaceous period but found in 1938 off the coast of AfricaLatimeria chalumnae - fish thought to have been extinct since the Cretaceous period but found in 1938 off the coast of Africa
coelacanth
crossopterygian, lobe-finned fish, lobefin - any fish of the order Crossopterygii; most known only in fossil form
genus Latimeria, Latimeria - type genus of the Latimeridae: coelacanth
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It was Charles Darwin who preached the doctrine of 'living fossils', and this fish, jocularly christened 'Old Fourlegs', known in its scientific dignity as Latimeria chalumnae, caught off the coast of East London, South Africa, just before Christmas 1938, was not only a wonderful piscatory prize, but also indubitably the greatest scientific find of the twentieth century.
THE WORLD'S OLDEST LIVING FISH by WHITTINGTQN-EGAN, RICHARD / Contemporary Review
 
 
 
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