coelacanth

See also: cœlacanth

English

From the New Latin genus name Coelacanthus, from Ancient Greek κοῖλος (koîlos, “hollow”) + ἄκανθα (ákantha, “spine”), referring to the hollow caudal fin rays of the first fossil specimen described and named by Louis Agassiz in 1839.^[1]

coelacanth (plural coelacanths)

Either of two species of deep-water fish, Latimeria chalumnae of the Indian Ocean and Latimeria menadoensis of Indonesia.
Synonym: gombessa
Any lobe-finned fish in the order Coelacanthiformes, thought until 1938 to have been extinct for 70 million years.
- 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 32:
  Among them were ancient relatives of the piranhas and those popular aquarium fish the tetras, along with garfish and freshwater coelacanths, known as mawsonids.

either of two species of deep-water fish

Assamese: চিলাকেন্থ (silakentho), চিলাকেন মাছ (silaken mas)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 矛尾魚 / 矛尾鱼 (maau⁴ mei⁵ jyu^4-2)

Mandarin: 矛尾魚 / 矛尾鱼 (zh) (máowěiyú)
Finnish: latimeria
French: cœlacanthe (fr) m
German: Quastenflosser (de) m
Greek: κοιλάκανθος (el) m (koilákanthos)
Indonesian: ikan raja laut (literally “sea king fish”)
Italian: celacanto m
Japanese: シーラカンス (ja) (shīrakansu)
Occitan: celacant m
Polish: latimeria f
Portuguese: celacanto m
Romanian: celacant m
Russian: целака́нт (ru) m (celakánt), латиме́рия (ru) f (latimérija)
Spanish: celacanto (es) m
Swedish: kvastfening c, havstofsstjärt c, tofsstjärtfisk c, blå kvastfening c
Sylheti: ꠍꠤꠟꠣꠇꠦꠘ ꠝꠣꠍ (sílaxen masó)
Vietnamese: cá vây tay

any lobe-finned fish in the order Coelacanthiformes

Chinese:
Cantonese: 空棘魚 / 空棘鱼 (hung¹ gik¹ jyu^4-2)

Mandarin: 空棘魚 / 空棘鱼 (kōngjíyú)
Finnish: varsieväkala
Greek: κοιλάκανθος (el) m (koilákanthos)
Indonesian: latimeria
Japanese: シーラカンス (ja) (shīrakansu)
Russian: целака́нт (ru) m (celakánt)
Spanish: celacanto (es) m
Swedish: lobfenig, kvastfening c