Latimeria chalumnae
date: label: Collection Date
content: 1938
name: label: Ocean/Sea/Gulf
content: Indian Ocean
notes: label: Notes
content: NOT a whole specimen. Only a scale mounted on a slide. Tag accompanying scale claims that it is from the holotype, but the locality given is not the type locality.
label: Notes
content: Found dry in fluid collection January 2017. Moved to osteo collection. Stored in osteo collection.
label: Notes
content: Note with specimen reads, "Precise Location: USNM-Paleo label indicates that this speicmen was taken form "near Comoro Islands." If this scale is indeed from the holotype of Latimeria chalumnae, then the proper locality would be: southwest of New London, off the mouth of the Chalumna River, South Africa."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 18 Jul 2017
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: USNM-Paleo label indicates that this specimen was taken from "near Comoro Islands", Africa, Indian Ocean
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content: Vertebrate Zoology
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content: Fishes
publisher: label: Published Name
content: Latimeria chalumnae
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Vertebrate Zoology - Fishes Division
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2032371
label: USNM Number
content: 375991
taxonomicName: label: Taxonomy
content: Animalia, Chordata, Vertebrata, Osteichthyes, Sarcopterygii, Coelacanthimorpha, Coelacanthiformes, Latimeriidae
physicalDescription: label: Prep Count
content: 1
label: Preparation
content: Dry Osteological Specimen