Press photograph showing the curator of the East London Museum, Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer, with the taxidermied specimen of coelacanth found off the coast of East London.
The specimen was identified by the ichthyologist of Rhodes University, James Leonard Brierley Smith, as belonging to the coelacanth genus thought extinct. He named the specimen Latimeria chalumnae, after Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer
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