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from The Century Dictionary.
- A family of fishes, exemplified by the genus Cœlacanthus, including forms with rounded scales, 2 dorsal fins, each supported by a single 2-pronged interspinous bone, paired fins obtusely lobate, caudal fin diphycercal, air-bladder ossified, and notochord persistent.
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