The History of the Coelacanth Fishes
Publisher: Chapman & Hall
Published: March 1998
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780412751004
Subjects: Fish; Ichthyology; Nature; Nature/Ecology
First sentence: There can be few episodes in the history of ichthyology to rival the excitement following the announcement in the East London Dispatch of 20 February 1939, declaring that a coelacanth had been captured a few miles off the mouth of the River Chalumnae, South Africa.