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Latimeria chalumnae Smith, 1939

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
SPECIES
Published in
Smith, J. L. B. (1939). A living fish of Mesozoic type. <em>Nature (London).</em> v. 143 (no. 3620): 455-456.

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Chordata
class
Coelacanthi
order
Coelacanthiformes
family
Latimeriidae
genus
Latimeria
species
Latimeria chalumnae

Name

Synonyms
Latemaria chalumnae Smith, 1939
Malania anjouanae Smith, 1953
Homonyms
Latimeria chalumnae Smith, 1939
Common names
African Coelacanth in English
Afrikansk blå fisk in Danish
Blue Coelacanth in English
Bojtosúszós maradványhal in Hungarian
Celacanto de Comores in Spanish
Celacanto de las Comores in Spanish
Celacanto-africano in Portuguese
Celecanto in Spanish
Coelacanthe in French
Cœlacanthe africain in French
Forniskúfur in Icelandic
Gewone Coelacant in Dutch
Gewöhnlicher Quastenflosser in German
Gombessa in English
Harilik latimeeria in Estonian
Hint Koelakantı in Turkish
Komoren-Quastenflosser in German
Komorenquastenflosser in German
Latimeria delle Comore in Italian
Latimerie podivná in Czech
Latimérie podivná in Czech
Mamme in English
Old four legs in English
Seelakant in Afrikaans
Selakant in Afrikaans
Skúfuggi in Icelandic
Skúfur in Icelandic
Tofsstjärtfisk in Swedish
Vierpoot in Afrikaans
West Indian Coelacanth in English
West Indian Ocean coelacanth in English
West Indian Ocean coelacanth in English
coelacanth in English
coelacanth in English
latimeria in Polish
Латимерия in Russian
Латимерія коморська in Ukrainian
سيلاكانث أفريقي in Arabic
شوكيات جوف غرب المحيط الهندي in Arabic
ปลาซีลาแคนธ์แอฟริกา in Thai
シーラカンス in Japanese
矛尾魚 in language.
矛尾鱼 in language.
Celecanto in Spanish
Coelacanth in English
Coelacanthe in French
Gombessa in English
coelacanth in English

Bibliographic References

  1. Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025).
  2. Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). 10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4
  3. Smith, J. L. B. (1939). A living fish of Mesozoic type. <em>Nature (London).</em> v. 143 (no. 3620): 455-456.
  4. Van der Laan, Richard, William N. Eschmeyer, and Ronald Fricke, 2014: Family-group names of Recent fishes. Zootaxa, Monograph 3882. 1-230.
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