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Bookmark or Share- Coelacanth | Description, Habitat, Discovery, & FactsCoelacanth, any of the two living lobe-finned bony fishes of the genus Latimeria. Order Coelacanthiformes, to which all coelacanths belong, was thought to have died out about 66 million years ago, until a coelacanth was caught in 1938. Two living species, the African coelacanth and the Sulawesi coelacanth, are known.
- Coelacanth - OceanaAs a result of its small geographic range, low natural numbers, and vulnerability to newly arising deep-sea fisheries, the coelacanth is considered to be critically endangered (very highly vulnerable to extinction) by marine scientists.
- Coelacanth | Smithsonian OceanDivision of Fishes. Coelacanths (seel-a-canths) were once known only from fossils and were thought to have gone extinct approximately 65 million years ago (mya), during the great extinction in which the dinosaurs disappeared. The most recent fossil record dates from about 80 mya but the earliest records date back as far as approximately 360 mya.
- Coelacanth - WikipediaCoelacanths ( / ˈsiːləkænθ / ⓘ SEE-lə-kanth) (order Coelacanthiformes) are an ancient group of lobe-finned fish (Sarcopterygii) in the class Actinistia. [2] [3] As sarcopterygians, they are more closely related to lungfish and tetrapods (which includes amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals) than to ray-finned fish .
- Coelacanth | Smithsonian InstitutionThis Smithsonian Snapshot celebrates the June 8 World Oceans Day with this coelacanth, a prehistoric fish thought to have gone extinct 65 million years ago. Coelacanths are primitive Sarcopterygians or lobed-finned fishes, a lineage of bony fishes that gave rise to land vertebrates, including humans.
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