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It existed 350 million ears ago and scientists say it went extinct 60 million years ago but in 1938,a living specimen was caught in the Indian ocean off southern Africa.
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What are are the only species of lobe-finned fish alive today?
coelacanth
Is the coelacanth a herbivore?
No, the coelacanth is a carnivorous fish. It feeds on other fish and cephalopods.
What type of lobe finned fish is thought to be extinct?
Lobe-finned fish were prehistoric fish from the order of Crossopterygii. These type of fish were discovered in fossils with no known live specimen at the time of the discovery. However in 1938 a fish species called Coelacanth, which was thought to have been extinct, was discovered off the Southern coast of Africa. More recently, in 1997 and again in 1998, a separate breed of Coelacanth, named Indonesian Coelcanth (Latimeria Menadoensis), were discovered living in the oceans off of Indonesia. The Indonesian Coelcanth (Latimeria Menadoensis) is officially listed as "threatened", not extinct. All species of lobe-finned fish are believed to be exctinct except for the Coelacanth and Sulawesi Coelacanth.
What type of animal is a coelacanth?
Is a fish.
How many years has the coelacanth fish existed?
Coelacanth fish first appear in the fossil record about 410 million years ago.
What negative effects do humans have on Coelacanth?
There are only two species of this fish surviving, the West Indian Ocean Coelacanth and the Indonesian Coelacanth. (It was thought to have been extinct for 65 million years.) Both species are endangered. Losses occur when they are caught accidentally (they are not good eating) but specimens now are no longer thrown back, but are kept to be sold to scientists and museums!
What is the coelacanth on Animal Crossing?
A coelacanth is a fish that can only be caught when it is snowing or raining in animal crossing. It is caught in the ocean.
How do you spell cielecante?
The closest word to this spelling is the proper noun Coelacanth, an order of fish thought to be extinct but rediscovered in 1938 as the species Latimeria chalumnae.
How much money would a coelacanth cost?
Ii is about 154.5 million dollars for this rare species known as the coelacanth
What charateristics of a coelacanth cause it to be classified as a fish?
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How do you catch a coelacanth on animal crossing wild world?
You can catch a coelacanth in the ocean when it is snowing or raining, and is a very big fish.
What characteristics of a coelacanth cause it to be classified as a fish?
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