C20: named after Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer (1907–2004), South African museum curator
latimeria in American English
(ˌlætəˈmɪriə)
noun
a deep-sea coelacanth fish (Latimeria chalumnae) with large, circular scales and six of its seven fins lobelike: discovered in 1938 and found only near the Comoro Islands
Word origin
ModL, after M. E. D. Courtenay-Latimer (1907-2004), director of South African museum + -ia