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coelacanth

DEFINITIONS OF: coelacanth

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n fish thought to have been extinct since the Cretaceous period but found in 1938 off the coast of Africa

Synonyms:
Latimeria chalumnae
Type of:
crossopterygian, lobe-finned fish, lobefin
any fish of the order Crossopterygii; most known only in fossil form
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