Modern forms
There are only seven species of living Sarcopterygii.
- One species of actinistians called the coelacanth
found in the oceans near the Comoros in the Indian Ocean and
near Sulawesi in Indonesia
- 6 species of lungfish or Dipnoi in South
America, Australia and Africa.
Coelacanths
Lungfish
(Dipnoi)
Author: Snorri Sigurdsson (Email: ss4460@bristol.ac.uk)
Last updated: 14 November 2004
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