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West African Coelacanths?


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The West Indian Ocean coelacanth, thought to have become extinct in the Late Cretaceous, about 66 million years ago, was rediscovered in 1938, off the coast of South Africa. The Comoro Islands specimen (second overall) was discovered in December 1952. Then sixty years after the 1938 find, in 1998, a second extant species was rediscovered off North Sulawesi, Indonesia.

The credit for these coelacanth rediscoveries goes to Captain Hendrick Goosen, Marjorie Courtney-Latimer, and J. L. B. Smith for the West Indian Ocean coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae) and to Mark V. Erdmann and Arnaz Mehta for the Indonesian coelacanth (Latimeria menadoensis).

There remains continued speculation that more species of coelacanths remain to be discovered.

Philip J. C. Dark’s Legacy....

http://www.cryptozoonews.com/west-african-coelacanths/

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Bichirs (Polypterus senegalus on the pic) live in Niger too, they have lungs that make them quite a survivor on land like the definition of the ''mudfish'' in the article.

 

Bichir - Alchetron, The Free Social Encyclopedia

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