- Coelacanthidae by Jaylen Lawson
... paleontology) A family of extinct lobefin fishes in the order Coelacanthiformes.
- Coelacanthini by Gavin Perez
... vertebrate zoology) The equivalent name for Coelacanthiformes.
- Laugiidae by Esmeralda Richards
... paleontology) A family of Mesozoic fishes in the order Coelacanthiformes.
- coelacanth by Maxwell Sullivan
... vertebrate zoology) Any member of the Coelacanthiformes, an order of lobefin fishes represented by a single living genus, Latimeria.
- Crossopterygii by Great Soviet Encyclopedia
... Representatives of the order Coelacanthiformes, or Actinistia, appeared during the middle Devonian; they lived in fresh waters during the Paleozoic but moved to the sea at the beginning of the Mesozoic. They are now represented by a single genus ( Latimeria ), members of which live off the shores of the Comoro Islands in the Indian Ocean. The Coelacanthiformes have no ...