| Found in | Forey, P.L. History of the coelacanths, 1998: p. 1 ("Latimeria was recognizably a member of a group of fishes--the coelacanths--well known from the fossil record but thought to have died out some 80 million years previously")
Catalog of the genera of recent fishes, via WWW, 22 Jan. 1998 (Latimeria Smith 1939. Valid. Latimeriidae; Malania Smith 1953. Synonym of Latimeria Smith 1939. Based on an abnormal specimen of Latimeria. In describing the genus Smith proposed an alternate name Melanius which technically was a name in synonymy and never made available.)
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