Showing posts with label South African Ichthyologist: James Leonard Brierley Smith (26/10/1897 – 07/01/1968). Show all posts
Showing posts with label South African Ichthyologist: James Leonard Brierley Smith (26/10/1897 – 07/01/1968). Show all posts

J.L.B Smith: South African Ichthyologist


In 1938 he was the first to identify a Coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae), considered as extinct!
 He the organised the scientific search which ended 14 years later in the catch of another specimen.
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