handfish

Etymology

From hand + fish.

handfish means any of the anglerfishes of the family Brachionichthyidae, which can "walk" on the sea floor using their pectoral fins. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 88 out of 100.

noun

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.”