coelacanth

  1. Noun.  Either of two species of deep-water fish, ''Latimeria chalumnae'' of the Indian Ocean and ''L. menadoensis'' of Indonesia.
  2. Noun.  Any lobe-finned fish in the order Coelacanthiformes, thought until 1938 to have been extinct for 70 million years.

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