coelacanth 的詞源
coelacanth(n.)
肺魚目,1850年,源自現代拉丁語 Coelacanthus(屬名,1839年,阿加西茲),來自希臘語 koilos “空心”(來自 PIE 詞根 *keue- “膨脹”,也是“拱頂,洞穴”)+ akantha “脊椎”(來自 PIE 詞根 *ak- “尖銳,上升到一個點,刺穿”)。因化石遺骸中支撐尾部的空心鰭條而得名。
認爲它在6600萬年前滅絕,直到1938年12月22日在南非東海岸捕獲一條活體。這個標本被博物館館長瑪喬麗·科特尼-拉蒂默注意到,她向南非魚類學家 J.L.B.史密斯寫了一份描述。
I stared and stared, at first in puzzlement. I did not know any fish of our own, or indeed of any seas like that; it looked more like a lizard. And then a bomb seemed to burst in my brain, and beyond that sketch and the paper of the letter, I was looking at a series of fishy creatures that flashed up as on a screen, fishes no longer here, fishes that had lived in dim past ages gone, and of which only fragmentary remains in rock are known. [J.L.B. Smith, "Old Fourlegs: The Story of the Coelacanth," 1956]
我盯着看,起初感到困惑。我不認識我們自己的任何魚,或者說任何像那樣的海洋生物; 它看起來更像蜥蜴。然後,我的腦海裏似乎爆炸了一顆炸彈,在那張草圖和信紙的背後,我看到了一系列魚類生物,它們像在屏幕上閃現,已經不在這裏的魚類,生活在遙遠的過去,只有在岩石中的殘骸被人們所知。[J.L.B.史密斯,“Old Fourlegs: The Story of the Coelacanth”,1956]
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