coelacanth in English

noun
1
a large, bony marine fish with a three-lobed tail fin and fleshy pectoral fins. It is thought to be related to the ancestors of land vertebrates and was known only from fossils until one was found alive in 1938; since then others have been found near the Comoro Islands in the Indian Ocean and off Sulawesi, Indonesia.
Tetrapods are part of a larger groups called Sarcopterygii, which also includes several groups of lobe-finned fish, such as lungfish and the coelacanth .

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1. Coelacanth eyes are very sensitive, and have a tapetum lucidum.

2. Calling themselves "SA Coelacanth Expedition 2000", the group returned with photographic equipment and several additional members.

3. In 2005, a molecular study estimated the divergence time between the two coelacanth species to be 40–30 mya.

4. In accordance with the Convention on International Trade of Endangered Species treaty, the coelacanth was added to Appendix I (threatened with extinction) in 1989.

5. ‘Elsewhere, especially in some loans, c is soft before ae, oe in Latin caesura and Greek coelacanth, soft in French façade (often written without the Cedilla, as facade), and generally hard in …