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Coelacanth

Educational resources on Coelacanth

Coelacanth or Latimeria chalumnae is listed on the IUCN Red list (1996) as Critically Endangered due to A2cd, C2b . IUCN Profile of the Coelacanth

Academic web links for the Coelacanth.


Natural History Highlight - National Museum of Natural History
Second Indonesian coelacanth known to science, later to become holotype of new species, Latimeria menadoensis.
www.mnh.si.edu/highlight/coelacanth

Sulawesi Coelacanth
The Discovery: Until 1938, coelacanths were known only as an order of peculiar lobe-finned fishes which appeared in the fossil record almost 400 million years ago and then seemed
www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/vertebrates/coelacanth/coelacanth1.html

Sulawesi Coelacanth
The various subjects including discovery, fascination, habitat, conservation, and unanswered questions.
www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/vertebrates/coelacanth/coelacanths.html

Coelacanth fossil sheds light on fin-to-limb evolution
University of Chicago News Office Press Release ... A 400 million-year-old fossil of a coelacanth fin, the first finding of its kind, fills a shrinking evolutionary gap between
www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/07/070801.coelacanth.shtml

Latimeria chalumnae
Coelacanth Rescue Mission. The Coelacanth Rescue Mission is an outgrowth of several coelacanth expeditions to the Comoro Islands originated in the 1980's
www.earlham.edu/~failemi/coelacanths.html

Coelacanth fossil provides new data about primitive pattern for lobed ...
Coelacanth fossil provides new data about primitive pattern for lobed fins By Catherine Gianaro Medical Center Communications
chronicle.uchicago.edu/070816/coelacanth.shtml

Coelacanth Facts , Coldwell Banker Spokane Wa, Cocksnot
Added coelacanth facts.That nothing is usually some kind of like screening for all people with fingers .Small differences among the fingerprints identify individual species
www.mit.edu/~endy/scraps/talks/5/coelacanth-facts.html

Sulawesi Coelacanth
Conservation: The coelacanth population in the Comoros is estimated to be less than a thousand animals. Moreover, submersible research by the JAGO team from Germany (lead by Hans
www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/vertebrates/coelacanth/coelacanth4.html

Coelacanth Habitat , Cod Ar2, Cocksnot
Genetically modifying cells for coelacanth habitat re-infusion into a human patient months and possibly years later .This wonderful girl Cheryl ,didn t notice at the School of
www.mit.edu/~endy/scraps/talks/5/coelacanth-habitat.html

Genetic sequencing of prehistoric fish could reveal how animals ...
Noonan said that coelacanth’s close relative, the lungfish, could also fill in the genetic gap between land animals and fish, but the coelacanth has one practical advantage
news-service.stanford.edu/news/2004/december1/med-fish-1201.html







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