LatimeriaDR - Extended License by Dinoraul
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Latimeria is the only known living species of coelacanth.
Coelacanths may live as long as 80 to 100 years and grow up to 2m long. They live as deep as 700 m (2300 ft) below sea level, but are more commonly found at depths of 90 to 200 m. Living examples of Latimeria chalumnae have a deep blue color which probably camouflages them from prey species; however, the Indonesian species is brown.
Coelacanths are hunting cuttlefish, squid, snipe eels, small sharks, and other fish found in their deep reef and volcanic slope habitats. Coelacanths are also known to swim head down, backwards or belly up.
One reason this fish has been so successful is that specimens are able to slow down their metabolisms at will, sinking into the less-inhabited depths and minimizing their nutritional requirements in a sort of hibernation mode.