The lobe-finned fish, represented by the Latimeria (coelacanth), was thought to be extinct until a modern specimen was caught off the coast of South Africa in 1938. This significant discovery, made near Tulear (Toliara) in Madagascar, earned the coelacanth the nickname "living fossil".
The lobbed fin fish was considered extinct till latimeria was caught in ______?
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