handfish
nounEtymology From hand + fish.
1
Any of the anglerfishes of the family Brachionichthyidae, which can "walk" on the sea floor using their pectoral fins.
- An astonishing exception, however, is a single fossil of a handfish, so-named because they ʻwalkʼ on fin-like hands.2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 69:
- Derived terms
- smooth handfish