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A large, primitive lobe-finned marine fish found primarily in the deep coastal waters of the Indian Ocean, famous for being a 'living fossil' that was thought to have been extinct for 65 million years until a live specimen was discovered in 1938.

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"The discovery of a living sarcopterygian off the coast of South Africa was one of the most astonishing zoological events of the twentieth century."

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sarcopterygian

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Wordmom. (2026). Synonyms for Coelacanth. In Wordmom Thesaurus. Retrieved Nov 5, 2026, from https://wordmom.com/synonyms/coelacanth
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