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On 30 July 1998, an Indonesian population of coelacanth was discovered. It is apparently the same species as the well-known coelacanth from the Comoran archipelago in the Indian Ocean, Latimeria chalumnae Smith.
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Erdmann, M., Caldwell, R. & Moosa, M. Indonesian ‘king of the sea’ discovered. Nature 395, 335 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1038/26376
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