WoRMS taxon details
Latimeria chalumnae Smith, 1939
AphiaID: 217438
AphiaID: 217438
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Sarcopterygii (Class) > Coelacanthiformes (Order) > Latimeriidae (Family) > Latimeria (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||||
| Typetaxon of |
Latimeria Smith, 1939 | |||||||||||||||
| Parent | Latimeria Smith, 1939 | |||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Latemaria chalumnae Smith, 1939 (misspelling) Malania anjouanae Smith, 1953 | |||||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Anon. (1996). FishBase 96 [CD-ROM]. ICLARM: Los Baños, Philippines. 1 cd-rom pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: FishBase, version december 2007, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details] additional source: FishBase, version may 2009 [details] additional source: FishBase, version october 2012 [details] | |||||||||||||||
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| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Comores [details] Madagascar [details] Mozambique [details] South Africa (country) [details] | |||||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (4 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (55 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To FishBase To GenBank (1025400 nucleotides; 455 proteins) To IUCN Red List To ITIS | |||||||||||||||
| Note |
Description: Living fossil, see family description. [details] | |||||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:217438 | |||||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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[Taxonomic tree] [Distribution map] [Google] [Google scholar] [Google images] | ||||||||||||||||
| Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Latimeria chalumnae Smith, 1939. In: Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2013) FishBase. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=217438 on 2013-05-19 | ||||||||||||||||
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