Handfishes: thylacines of the sea?

摘要

A taxonomic review has added nine species to a curious group of fishes that once walked the world, and raised an urgent need for their conservation.In December 2008, ichthyologists at the CSIRO Australian National Fish Collection (ANFC) in Hobart received a unique package from the Museum national d'Histoire naturelle in Paris.Their reverential unwrapping revealed a tiny, wrinkled, creamy-yellow fish, with hand-like front fins and the bearing of a bullfrog.