Dictionary
coe•la•canth
Pronunciation: (sē'lu-kanth"), [key]—
n.
a crossopterygian fish,
Latimeria chalumnae, thought to have been extinct since the Cretaceous Period but found in 1938 off the coast of southern Africa.
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