How to pronounce coelacanth

The word Coelacanth is an adaptation of the Modern Latin Cœlacanthus (“hollow spine”), from the Greek κοῖλ-ος (koilos, “hollow”) and ἄκανθ-α (akantha, “spine”), referring to the hollow caudal fin rays of the first fossil specimen described and named by Louis Agassiz in 1839, belonging to the genus Coelacanthus.

Coelacanth is a noun.

They don’t taste good. People, and most likely other fish-eating animals, don’t eat coelacanths because their flesh has high amounts of oil, urea, wax esters, and other compounds that give them a foul flavor and can cause sickness.