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Year: 1954
West Indian Ocean Coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae)
The West Indian Ocean coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae), sometimes known as the gombessa, African coelacanth, and simply coelacanth, is a crossopterygian, one of two extant species of coelacanth, a rare order of vertebrates more closely related to lungfish and tetrapods than to the common ray-finned fishes. The other extant species is the Indonesian coelacanth (L. menadoensis). The West Indian Ocean coelacanth was historically known by fishermen around the Comoro Islands (where it is known as gombessa), Madagascar, and Mozambique in the western Indian Ocean,[ but first scientifically recognised from a specimen collected in South Africa in 1938. This coelacanth was once thought to be evolutionarily conservative, but discoveries have shown initial morphological diversity. It has a vivid blue pigment, and is the better known of the two extant species. The species has been assessed as critically endangered on the IUCN Red List.
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Map of Mohéli Island
Shirazian Tombs - Mohéli Island
Village of Djoiezi - Mohéli Island
Village of Mohani - Mohéli Island
Map of Mayotte
Mamoudzou (Mamutzu)
Chiconi (Mayotte)
Moya Beach
Mausoleum of President Saïd Mohamed Cheikh
Mausoleum of President Saïd Mohamed Cheikh
Mosquée Salimata Hamissi
Mosquée Zaouiyat Chaduli
The Préfecture building
Post Office
Bank of Madagascar
Map of Grande Comore
Moroni
Foumbouni
Mitsamiouli
Goulaivoini
The island of Anjouan (Nzwani)
The Gomajou Peninsula
The Old Palace at Domoni
