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Latimeriidae

gombessa·Berg, 1940

GBIF:155300481

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PROFILE

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Habitat

Marine

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Common names used for this species across different languages and regions.

gombessaeng

Vernacular (common) names are the everyday names used for a species in different languages and regions. A single species may have dozens of common names worldwide.

gombessa

eng

Source: MASDEA (1997).

CLASSIFICATION

Taxonomic Classification Tree

BiotaAnimaliaChordataVertebrataGnathostomataOsteichthyesSarcopterygiiCoelacanthiCoelacanthiformesLatimerioideiLatimeriidae

DOM

Biota868,823

Animalia624,570

Chordata52,812

SUB

Vertebrata49,207

INF

Gnathostomata49,030

Osteichthyes42,538

SUB

Latimeriidae

HIERARCHY

Child Taxa(1)

LatimeriaSmith, 1939

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References(2)

Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2026). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. <em>California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco.</em> Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2026.

basis of record

Van Der Laan, R.; Eschmeyer, W. N.; Fricke, R. (2014). Family-group names of Recent fishes. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 3882(1): 1-230.

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