Latimeriidae
| Latimeriidae Temporal range:
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| West Indian Ocean coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae) | |
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| Undina pencillata, an extinct species | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Sarcopterygii |
| Class: | Actinistia |
| Order: | Coelacanthiformes |
| Suborder: | Latimerioidei
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| Family: | Latimeriidae Berg, 1940 |
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Latimeriidae is the only extant
lobe-finned fish. It contains two extant species in the genus Latimeria, found in deep waters off the coasts of southern Africa and east-central Indonesia. In addition, several fossil genera are known from the Mesozoic of Europe, the Middle East, and the southeastern United States, dating back to the Triassic.[2][3][4]
The latimeriids are thought to have always been an exclusively marine group. They may have originated in the western
Cladogram after Toriño et al., 2021.[7]
| Latimeriidae | |
References
- PMID 37443368.
- ^ "Fossilworks: Latimeriidae". www.fossilworks.org. Retrieved 2022-09-11.
- ^ "FAMILY Details for Latimeriidae - Gombessa". www.fishbase.se. Retrieved 2022-09-11.
- ^ "Mindat.org". www.mindat.org. Retrieved 2022-09-11.
- ^ a b Uyeno, Teruya; Yabumoto, Yoshitaka (November 2007). "ORIGIN OF EXTANT COELACANTHS". ResearchGate.
- PMID 23209614.
- ^ S2CID 233942585.