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Latimeria chalumnae

Latimeria chalumnae

African Coelacanth(+40)·Smith, 1939

GBIF:299479947

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PROFILE

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Habitat

Marine

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GEOGRAPHY

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REGIONS

Geographic Distribution(6)

Comoran Exclusive Economic Zone
Mozambican Exclusive Economic Zone
Western Indian Ocean
Comoran Exclusive Economic Zone
South Africa (country)
Madagascar

DATA

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Common names used for this species across different languages and regions. Available in 21 languages.

engAfrican CoelacanthengdanAfrikansk blå fiskdanengBlue CoelacanthenghunBojtosúszós maradványhalhunspaCelacanto de Comoresspa+36 more

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. This taxon has names in 21 languages.

engAfrican Coelacanth
eng
danAfrikansk blå fisk
dan
engBlue Coelacanth
eng
hunBojtosúszós maradványhal
hun
spaCelacanto de Comores
spa
spaCelacanto de las Comores
spa
porCelacanto-africano
por
spaCelecanto
spa
fraCoelacanthe
fra
fraCœlacanthe africain
fra
islForniskúfur
isl
nldGewone Coelacant
nld
deuGewöhnlicher Quastenflosser
deu
engGombessa
eng
estHarilik latimeeria
est
turHint Koelakantı
tur
deuKomoren-Quastenflosser
deu
deuKomorenquastenflosser
deu
itaLatimeria delle Comore
ita
cesLatimerie podivná
ces
cesLatimérie podivná
ces
engMamme
eng
engOld four legs
eng
afrSeelakant
afr
afrSelakant
afr
islSkúfuggi
isl
islSkúfur
isl
sweTofsstjärtfisk
swe
afrVierpoot
afr
engWest Indian Coelacanth
eng
engWest Indian Ocean coelacanth
eng
engcoelacanth
eng
pollatimeria
pol
rusЛатимерия
rus
ukrЛатимерія коморська
ukr
araسيلاكانث أفريقي
ara
araشوكيات جوف غرب المحيط الهندي
ara
thaปลาซีลาแคนธ์แอฟริกา
tha
jpnシーラカンス
jpn
矛尾魚
矛尾鱼

HIERARCHY

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Source Information

Catalogue of Life

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The Catalogue of Life is building a comprehensive catalogue of all known species on Earth. It offers two types of releases that reflect different levels of quality. The Base Release is curated and verified by experts specifically for COL. The eXtended Release (COL XR) builds on the Base Release 2026-05-11 (COL26.5) by programmatically integrating additional data sources. It integrates information from 61504 overlapping taxonomic and nomenclatural global, regional, national and management data sources (checklists) as well as originating from digitised literature available in Catalogue of Life's infrastructure ChecklistBank. New names and other data included in the COL XR are indicated with the XR icon. This release addresses several gaps of the Base Release and also enriches the existing names with information such as authorships, references, and vernacular names. It also adds molecular data, such as barcode index numbers or operational taxonomic units, to the Catalogue of Life. Higher taxonomy is being added only in selected groups with important gaps. Meanwhile, the information from the global data sources of the Catalogue of Life Base Release remains unmodified. This enhanced process is continuously evolving and undergoing quality control checks by COL editors and its community. Due to its programmatic nature as well as the taxonomic and nomenclatural differences among the data sources used, some issues may arise. We therefore caution the user, and invite everyone to help log data issues in the [COL’s data GitHub repository](https://github.com/CatalogueOfLife/data/issues/new?template=xcol-content-feedback.md). We will do our best to resolve these issues as soon as possible.

Bánki, O., Roskov, Y., Döring, M., Ower, G., Hernández Robles, D. R., Plata Corredor, C. A., Stjernegaard Jeppesen, T., Örn, A., Pape, T., Hobern, D., Garnett, S., Little, H., DeWalt, R. E., Miller, J., Orrell, T., Aalbu, R., Abbott, J., Abreu, C., Acero P, A., et al. (2026). Catalogue of Life (2026-05-15 XR). Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgxsq

CC BYPublished 5/15/2026View dataset
GBIF Usage Key
299479947
Dataset Key
7ddf754f-d193-4cc9-b351-99906754a03b
Origin
source
Backbone Key
2441273
Taxon ID
6P2SC
Last Crawled
5/28/2026
Last Interpreted
6/4/2026