coelacanths 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. Consequently, Cycads are often referred to as “living fossils” and “coelacanths of the plant world.”
2. In some teleosts, the pouches branch off into additional sinus-like cavities, while in coelacanths, they form a series of tubes.