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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Fraser, Michael D.
• Bruton, Michael N.
• Carstens, Pieter B.
• Henderson, Bruce A.S.
• Henderson, Benjamin S.
• Fraser, Alan D.
• Dukes, Marc D.

Titel

Live coelacanth discovered off the KwaZulu-Natal South Coast, South Africa

Ist Teil von

• South African Journal of Science, 2020-03, Vol.116 (3-4), p.19-21

Ort / Verlag

Pretoria: Academy of Science for South Africa (ASSAf)

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

Quelle

EZB Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• When a living coelacanth was trawled off East London, South Africa, at a depth between 72 m and 100 m on 22 December 1938, it caused an international sensation.1-7 The specimen was saved for science by the young curator of the East London Museum, Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer8 and identified by JLB Smith of Rhodes University College5,6. Smith named it Latimeria chalumnae, after Courtenay-Latimer and the river off which it was caught, and it is listed in the official Coelacanth Conservation Council (CCC) inventory as CCC 1. L. chalumnae is classified in the family Latimeriidae and the suborder Latimerioidea.