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On April 25, 1977, the Japanese trawler Zuiyō Maru, fishing east of Christchurch, New Zealand, caught a strange, unknown creature in the trawl.The crew was convinced it was an unidentified animal, [4] but despite the potential biological significance of the curious discovery, the captain, Akira Tanaka, decided to dump the carcass into the ocean again so not to risk spoiling the fish caught.
Latimeria is a rare genus of fish which contains the only living species of coelacanth. It includes two extant species: the West Indian Ocean coelacanth ( Latimeria chalumnae) and the Indonesian coelacanth ( Latimeria menadoensis ). They follow the oldest known living lineage of Sarcopterygii (lobe-finned fish and tetrapods ), which means they ...
The coelacanth is also depicted on the 1000 Comorian franc banknote, as well as the 5 CF coin. [81] In the Pokémon media franchise, the Pokémon known as Relicanth is based on the coelacanth. [82] [83] In the video game series Animal Crossing, the coelacanth is a rare fish that can be caught by the player by fishing in the ocean. [84] [85]
Marjorie Eileen Doris Courtenay-Latimer (24 February 1907 – 17 May 2004) was a South African museum official, who in 1938, brought to the attention of the world the existence of the coelacanth, a fish thought to have been extinct for 65 million years. Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer discovered this coelacanth, formerly only seen in fossils ...
Latimeriidae is the only extant family of coelacanths, an ancient lineage of lobe-finned fish. It contains two extant species in the genus Latimeria, found in deep waters off the coasts of southern Africa and east-central Indonesia. In addition, several fossil genera are known from the Mesozoic of Europe, the Middle East, and the southeastern ...
The pallid sturgeon is an ancient fish native to the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers. The fish was listed as an endangered species in the 1990s. Meet the ancient fish nicknamed 'Living Dinosaur'
The West Indian Ocean coelacanth[ 6] ( Latimeria chalumnae) (sometimes known as gombessa, [ 2][ 7] African coelacanth, [ 8] or simply coelacanth[ 9]) is a crossopterygian, [ 10] one of two extant species of coelacanth, a rare order of vertebrates more closely related to lungfish and tetrapods than to the common ray-finned fishes.
The 11-foot (3.3-meter) smalltooth sawfish was seen swimming in circles near Cudjoe Key and reported by a member of the public to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, officials ...