Name: Nayoung KimGrade: 6

School: Fessenden

• Kingdom: Animalia • Phylum: Chordata •Class: Sarcopterygii• Subclass: Actinistia • Infraclass: Coelacanthimorpha•Order: Coelacanthiformes

Black eyeTeeth only in front of mouthGill coverCovering with silvery-blue bony scale2 dorsal fins, 2 pectoral fins, 2 pelvic fins,

1 anal fin and 1 caudal fin

Length: 5~6ft (1.5~2 m)

•Comoro Islands•Maputo•Mozambique• East London• Sodwana• South Africa•North Sulawesi • Indonesia

• Small sharks• Snipe eels• cuttlefishes• Squids• And other fish

found in their deep reef and volcanic slope habitats

• five coelacanth can live in eggs in their mother’s body • 10 cm diameter • It is known that

they produce only about five to twenty-six eggs at a time. • The eggs hatch

inside the female and the fry are born alive.

•humans•Coelacanths have no known natural predators!

•Coelacanth helps environment by controlling the population of small sharks, snipe eels, cuttlefishes and squids by eating them as food.

• Fishermen use them as food by drying them and salting them•Human use them for sand paper• Scientist use them as a museum specimens•Oil because it’s good for life-extending

• Stop eating them• Find something else for sand paper•Don’t throw garbage into the sea.

• en.wikipedia.org•www.enchanted.com•www.springerlink.com•marine.org•Valer.J.Weber• didyouknow.org•www.angelfire.com•www.evolution.bio.titech.ac.jp•www.scienceinafrica.co.za•www.hvrsd.org•www.jocara.net

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