fishapod

[fish-uh-pahd]

noun

plural

fishapods 

1. any extinct aquatic species that has features of both fish and tetrapods.

Example Sentences

Living during the Upper Devonian period, it was dubbed a "fishapod", with its mixture of fish-like and amphibious features.

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The fishapod could be a link�or it could be a strange animal like a platypus.

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The fishapod is a valuable find as a missing link�another snapshot in a continuum of change.

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Yet in the same article, they admit that the elongated fin of the fishapod would have been "worse than useless" on land and that the appendage is only "anatomically"--and not functionally--intermediate between lobed fins and legs.

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The fishapod could be a link--or a strange animal.

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