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Nature 395, 634 (15 October 1998) | doi:10.1038/27063

Coelacanth populations may go with the flow

Arnold L. Gordon1

  1. Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, New York 10964-8000, USA

The coelacanth population recently discovered in the Sulawesi Sea, north of Sulawesi, Indonesia1,2, may very well be related to those found earlier near the Comoran Islands in the western Indian Ocean. The ocean circulation map shown2 is in error: there is indeed an oceanographic connection between Sulawesi and the Comoran Islands region.