SJ-Coelacanth

=Coelacanth >( __>*__)= =Scientific name: //Latimeria chalumnae//=

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===History:On December 23, 1938, Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer noticed an unusual fish in some fishing nets. She had it examined by James Leonard Brierley Smith, who identified it as a coelacanth. This was the first live coelacanth to be found. Before this discovery, it was though to have become extinct some 70 million years ago.===