West Indian Ocean coelacanth
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west-indian-ocean-coelacanth-183-715570
title:
West Indian Ocean coelacanth
text:
The West Indian Ocean coelacanth is a crossopterygian, 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 other extant species is the Indonesian coelacanth. The West Indian Ocean coelacanth was historically known by fishermen around the Comoro Islands, Madagascar, and Mozambique in the western Indian Ocean, but first scientifically recognised from a specimen collected in South Africa in 193
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Species of lobe-finned bony fish
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Indian_Ocean_coelacanth
date created:
2006-06-26T09:32:09Z
date modified:
2024-09-06T18:38:28Z
main entity:
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image:
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fields total:
13
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16