The Diversity of The World of Life

Vertebrates (Vertebrata)

Lobe-Finned Fish

(Coelacanthimorpha etc.)

Representative

Coelocanth

Biology

ENVIRONMENTS

Discovered only in the last century, coelocanths have been caught in the Indian Ocean between East Africa and Madagascar.

DESCRIPTION

Coelocoanths are lobe-finned fish, like lungfish, and are living representatives of an extinct line of fishes that led to the amphibians.  These fishes characteristically had a very bony skeleton, which would prove useful for supporting a body out of the water, and small pointed teeth, which are useful for catching prey underwater or above.

Vertebrates (Vertebrata)

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