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IN my review of Prof. J. L. B. Smith's account of the existing Coelacanth fish, Latimeria (NATURE, July 13, 1940, p. 53), I remarked that the fins appeared to agree with those of the fossil Coelacanths in all respects except the considerable extension backwards of the membrane of the anterior dorsal fin.
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WOODWARD, A. The Existing Coelacanth Fish, Latimeria. Nature 146, 590 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/146590b0
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