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Latimeria chalumnae Smith, 1939

Dataset
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Published in
Smith, J. L. B. 1939. A living fish of Mesozoic type. Nature 143: 455-456.
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Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Chordata
class
Sarcopterygii
order
Coelacanthiformes
family
Latimeriidae
genus
Latimeria
species
Latimeria chalumnae

Name

Synonyms
Latemaria chalumnae Smith, 1939
Malania anjouanae Smith, 1953
Homonyms
Latimeria chalumnae Smith, 1939
Common names
Afrikansk blå fisk in Danish
Celacanto in Spanish
Celecanto in Spanish
Coelacanth in English
Coelacanth in English
Coelacanth in English
Coelacanth in English
Coelacanthe in French
Combessa in language.
Forniskúfur in Icelandic
Gombesa in language.
Gombessa in language.
Gombessa in language.
Gombessa in English
Gombeza in language.
Harilik latimeeria in Estonian
Kombesa in language.
Komoren-Quastenflosser in German
Latimeria in English
Latimeria in Finnish
Latimeria in Polish
Latimérie podivná in Czech
Mamme in language.
Mtsamboaboa in language.
Old four legs in English
Quastenflosser in German
Seelakant in Afrikaans
Selakant in Afrikaans
Skúfuggi in Icelandic
Skúfur in Icelandic
Tofsstjärtfisk in Swedish
West Indian Ocean coelacanth in English
латимерия in Russian
矛尾魚 in language.
矛尾鱼 in language.
Celecanto in Spanish
Coelacanth in English
Coelacanthe in French
Gombessa in English
coelacanth in English

Bibliographic References

  1. Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2019). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (12/2019).
  2. Van der Laan, Richard, William N. Eschmeyer, and Ronald Fricke, 2014: Family-group names of Recent fishes. Zootaxa, Monograph 3882. 1-230.
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