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Coelacanthiformes Family = Latimeriidae ordo_authority = Berg, 1937 subdivision_ranks = Families subdivision = See text.
Coelacanth (pronEng?si?l?k�n?, adaptation of Modern Latin C?lacanthus "hollow spine", from Greek (Ancient Greek) ????-?? koilos "hollow" + ?????-? akantha "spine", referring to the hollow spines of the fins) is the common name for an order (Order (biology)) of fish that includes the oldest living lineage (Lineage (evolution)) of Sarcopterygii (lobe-finned fish + tetrapods) known to date.
Fossil Range: fossil rangeDevonianCretaceouslatest=recentPS= (but extant)
Regnum: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata (Chordate)
Classis: Sarcopterygii
Subclassis: Actinistia
Infraclassis: Coelacanthimorpha