Indonesian coelacanth

Latimeria menadoensis, preparation at the Tokyo Sea Life Park

When Manado coelacanth ( Latimeria menadoensis ) is a second recent type of coelacanth. It was north of the Indonesian island of Sulawesi discovered on September 18, 1997 by Arnaz Mehta Erdmann, the wife of an American ecologist Mark V. Erdmann, in the Celebes Sea and described in 1999. Until then discovered in 1938 off the east coast of South Africa Comorian coelacanth ( Latimeria chalumnae ) had been considered only living coelacanth.

Manado Coelacanth be 1.4 meters long. They live on rocky coasts and in caves at depths of 150 to 200 meters, and probably deeper. The species shows no morphological differences from the Comoros coelacanth, but is not blue like the kind from the Indian Ocean, but brown. The genetic difference is obvious at 4.1%.

In 2009 was the first time a Japanese team of scientists to film a young Manado Coelacanth.