coelacanth

noun

1. 腔棘鱼；矛尾鱼（产于马达加斯加附近海域，1938年发现之前被认为已灭绝）
   a large fish found mainly in the seas near Madagascar. It was thought to be extinct until one was discovered in 1938.

1. The coelacanth inhabits the deep sea.
   腔棘鱼栖息于深海。
2. Cryptozoologists are especially proud of the catch in1938 of a coelacanth, an archaic-looking species of fish that had been thought to have gone extinct in the Cretaceous.
   令未知生物学家尤其骄傲的是1938年捕捉到的腔棘鱼，它是一种样貌古老的鱼类，原先认为在白垩纪便已灭绝。
3. The Coelacanth has very large eyes and distinct silver blue scales with white markings.
   它们有很大的眼睛和独特的蓝色带白斑的鳞片。
4. There are also sub species found of the Coelacanth but the real Coelacanth is found today in South Africa, Kenya, Tanzania and even the South Pacific.
   还发现了腔棘鱼的一些亚种存在，不过真正的腔棘鱼现在只在南非、肯尼亚、坦桑尼亚和南太平洋。
5. Hagi is the coelacanth of Japan, the ancient survivor that people assume to be extinct.
   萩城是日本的腔棘鱼&人们以为已经灭绝了的古老的幸存者。
6. Extinct except for the coelacanth.
   除腔棘鱼以外都已灭绝。

noun

1. fish thought to have been extinct since the Cretaceous period but found in 1938 off the coast of Africa

   Synonym:    Latimeria chalumnae