Indonesian coelacanth

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Indonesian coelacanth
A preserved Latimeria menadoensis, Tokyo Sea Life Park, Japan
CITES Appendix I (CITES)[2]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Sarcopterygii
Class: Actinistia
Order: Coelacanthiformes
Family: Latimeriidae
Genus: Latimeria
Species:
L. menadoensis
Binomial name
Latimeria menadoensis
L. menadoensis range in violet

The Indonesian coelacanth (Latimeria menadoensis, Indonesian: raja laut), also called Sulawesi coelacanth,

IUCN,[1] while the other species, L. chalumnae (West Indian Ocean coelacanth) is listed as critically endangered.[4] Separate populations of the Indonesian coelacanth are found in the waters of north Sulawesi as well as Papua and West Papua
.

Discovery

Latimeria menadoensis featured in Indonesian stamp

On September 18, 1997, Arnaz and

Bogor Zoological Museum, part of the Indonesian Institute of Sciences.[5] Erdmann's discovery was announced in Nature in September 1998.[9]

The fish collected by Erdmann was described in a 1999 issue of Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des sciences Paris by Pouyaud et al. It was given the scientific name Latimeria menadoensis (named after Manado where the specimen was found).[10] The description and its naming were published without the involvement or knowledge of Erdmann, who had been independently conducting research on the specimen at the time.[11] In response to Erdmann's complaints, Pouyaud and two other scientists asserted in a submission to Nature that they had been aware of the new species since 1995, predating the 1997 discovery. However the supplied photographic evidence of the purported earlier specimen, supposedly collected off southwest Java, was recognised as a crude forgery by the editorial team and the claim was never published.[12][13]

The fish is legally protected through the Minister of Forestry Regulation No. 7/1999.[14] However, it continued to be caught by local fishermen; on November 5, 2014, a fisherman found a specimen in his net, the seventh Indonesian coelacanth found in Indonesian waters since 1998.[15] Eight have been caught as of 2018.[16]

Description

Superficially, the Indonesian coelacanth, known locally as raja laut ("king of the sea"), appears to be the same as those found in the Comoros except that the background coloration of the skin is brownish-gray rather than bluish. It has the same white mottling pattern as the Comorian coelacanth, but with flecks over the dorsal surface of its body and fins that appear golden due to the reflection of light.[9] It may grow to 1.4 meters long.[17][16]

mya. The two species show a 4.28% overall difference in their nucleotides.[20]

An analysis of a specimen recovered from Waigeo, West Papua in eastern Indonesia indicates that there may be another lineage of the Indonesian coelacanth, and the two lineages may have diverged 13 million years ago. Whether this new lineage represents a subspecies or a new species has yet to be determined.[21]

Habitat

Teams of researchers using

submersibles have recorded live sightings of the fish in the waters of Manado Tua and the Talise islands off north Sulawesi as well as in the waters of Biak in Papua.[22][23][16] These areas share similar steep rocky topography full of caves, which are the habitat of the fish. These coelacanths live in deep waters of around 150 metres or more, at a temperature between 14 and 18 degrees Celsius.[22]

See also

References

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  2. ^ "Appendices | CITES". cites.org. Retrieved 2022-01-14.
  3. ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2023). "Latimeria menadoensis" in FishBase. February 2023 version.
  4. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2000.RLTS.T11375A3274618.en
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  5. ^ a b Jewett, Susan L. (November 11, 1998). "On the Trail of the Coelacanth, a Living Fossil"". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on September 16, 2005. Retrieved 2007-06-19.
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  7. ^ "The Discovery". University of California Museum of Paleontology.
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  14. ^ F. D. Hukom; Masamitsu Iwata; Augy Syahailatua; Teguh Peristiwady; Kawilarang W.A. Masengi; Dirhamsyah; Yoshitaka Abe. "History, Conservation and Research Program of Indonesian Coelacanth". 10th International Aquarium Congress Fukushima 2018 (PDF). pp. 122–126.
  15. ^ Gabriel Wahyu Titiyoga (November 15, 2014). "Another Pre-Historical Fish Caught in Sulawesi Water".
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    doi:10.34522/kmnh.17.0_49
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  22. ^ a b Augy Syaihailatua (March 30, 2015). "Hunting for living fossils in Indonesian waters". The Conversation.
  23. ^ Rik Nulens; Lucy Scott; Marc Herbin (22 September 2011). "An updated inventory of all known specimens of the coelacanth, Latimeria spp" (PDF). Smithiana. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 August 2018. Retrieved 12 October 2017.

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