West African Lungfish

Fish > Bony Fishes

OverviewThe West African Lungfish (Protopterus annectens) is an ancient, legendary, and biologically mind-bending freshwater sarcopterygian (lobe-finned fish) native to the floodplains, sluggish swamps, and seasonal wetlands of sub-Saharan Africa. Standing as one of...

Indonesian Coelacanth

Fish > Lobe-finned Fishes

OverviewThe Indonesian Coelacanth (Latimeria menadoensis), known in the local Indonesian dialect of Manado as the raja laut (‘King of the Sea’), is an extraordinary, archaic marine sarcopterygian fish belonging to the order Coelacanthiformes. Discovered by...