latimeria

latimeria
latimeria [lat΄ə mir′ē ə]
n.
ModL, after M. E. D. Courtenay-Latimer (1907-2004), director of South African museum + -IA
a deep-sea coelacanth fish (Latimeria chalumnae) with large, circular scales and six of its seven fins lobelike: discovered in 1938 and found only near the Comoro Islands

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