Animalia > Chordata > Coelacanthi > Coelacanthiformes > Latimeriidae > Latimeria > Latimeria chalumnae

Latimeria chalumnae (Coelacanth; Gombessa; Latimeria; Old four legs)

Synonyms: Latemaria chalumnae; Malania anjouanae
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Wikipedia Abstract

The West Indian Ocean coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae), sometimes known as the African coelacanth is one of two extant species of coelacanth, a rare order of vertebrates more closely related to lungfish, reptiles and mammals than to the common ray-finned fishes. It has a vivid blue pigment, and is the better known of the two extant species. The species has been assessed as critically endangered on the IUCN Red List.
View Wikipedia Record: Latimeria chalumnae

Endangered Species

Status: Critically Endangered
View IUCN Record: Latimeria chalumnae

Attributes

Maximum Longevity [3]  48 years
Water Biome [1]  Oceanic vent, Coastal
Adult Weight [2]  115.192 lbs (52.25 kg)

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Bunaken Manado Tua Marine National Park II 241403 Indonesia  

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Polyprion americanus (Wreck-fish)1

Predators

Centrophorus granulosus (Rough shark)[5]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 2de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 3Frimpong, E.A., and P. L. Angermeier. 2009. FishTraits: a database of ecological and life-history traits of freshwater fishes of the United States. Fisheries 34:487-495.
♦ 4Feeding ecology and evolutionary survival of the living coelacanth Latimeria chalumnae, H. Fricke, K. Hissmann, Marine Biology (2000) 136: 379-386
♦ 5Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0