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coelacanth

coe·la·canth

UK/ˈsiː.lə.kænθ/ US/ˈsilʌˌkænθ/ uncommon

noun

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fish thought to have been extinct since the Cretaceous Period but found in 1938 off the coast of Africa

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From the New Latin genus name Coelacanthus, from Ancient Greek κοῖλος (koîlos, “hollow”) + ἄκανθα (ákantha, “spine”), referring to the hollow caudal fin rays of the first fossil specimen described and named by Louis Agassiz in 1839.

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