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Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]handfish (plural handfish or handfishes)
- Any of the anglerfishes of the genus Brachionichthys, which can "walk" on the sea floor using their pectoral fins.
- 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 69:
- An astonishing exception, however, is a single fossil of a handfish, so-named because they ʻwalkʼ on fin-like hands.