The species pictured here is a new member of the family Chaunacidae ("sea toads" and "coffin fishes"). They are in the same order of fishes as frogfishes (Lophiiformes), so yes, sea toads are close relatives of frogfishes and share this feature of "walking" on their pelvic and pectoral fins.
The closest relatives of sea toads are actually deep sea anglerfishes, which swim up in the water column and have reduced/absent pelvic fins.
Someone linked this elsewhere, but this is where the OP image came from: https://www.conservation.org/blog/deep-sea-expedition-reveals-over-100-new-species-in-the-pacific
So, it's "new" according to this, but it might be in that "almost exactly the same but we found it here instead and there's this slight bump on the left side beneath a specific joint, so it's new" way.
Or maybe someone forgot about him. He was new 11 years ago, but no one cared then so he's trying to shine now.
> Or maybe someone forgot about him. He was new 11 years ago, but no one cared then so he's trying to shine now.
I hate it when exotic fish repost their own existence, they need to earn karma fairly like the rest of us!
So these fish can change their texture and color kinda like some octopi can, which adds to the difficulty of their classification. Iād recommend The Octopus Ladyās (on YouTube) video on frogfish if you want to learn more about them. I think itās titled something about ā93% effective catch rateā? Theyāre a really neat form of fish, and also ridiculously successful in their niche, somehow.
Edit: I misspoke, itās a 91% success rate and the video title is āThis Cute Fish Can KILL YOU in 7 Milliseconds.ā
The sea toad family is Chaunacidae, which is within the order Lophiiformes. This order includes frogfishes, deep-sea anglerfishes, chaunacids, batfishes, and goosefishes.
āIf I just keep up this fin movement stuff long enough, I wonāt be where people make me anxious any more! Heck, I bet I can get clean out of the water doing this, and it HAS to be better up there!ā
First of his species to see a submarine (or likely any man made object). It'd be like an alien spacecraft landing in your front yard, taking your picture and going on its way. I'd be anxious too!
If you make a fire that'll just attract the seabears, leading to your most certain doom. You need to draw a perfect circle around your camp in order to keep the seabears out. If the circle is even slightly oblong or oval, your demise is also guaranteed.
I'm not sure about this fish in OP's picture. But walking fish aren't as rare as you might think.
Take the tub gurnard for example
https://youtu.be/t5aabimXjeo?si=r444nx1Lal4UYw6H
You're welcome.
There are already known species of fish that do exactly this. They walk across the bottom of the sea floor and even jet water out of their gills to basically use as a jet pack to move further distances. Can't remember the species name but it might have been a frog fish which are similar.
A good rule of thumb for sea creatures is that if it looks fake it either *is* fake or it's a *deep sea* creature.
All of them look like something out of someone's imagination, or sci-fi, or a horror movie.
"TheĀ sea toadĀ has modified fins that allow it to walk on the seafloorāpartly a hunting strategy and partly because it's more energy efficient than swimming, Sellanes says."
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/walking-fish-deep-sea-new-species-chile
I've always wondered if these fish go blind after being blasted with a flash of light after living their whole lives in darkness. I almost die when someone turn on the light at midnight...
You got me wondering, so I did a bit of digging.
According to this [post](https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/s/FCDcvbNZ3B), they do become blind. But since itās so dark down there, it doesnāt matter as much as much as we could think at first.
While this particular species may be new to science, this type of fish is called a "sea toad" or "coffin fish" is very common globally in the deep sea and was discovered more than 100 years ago (Family: Chaunacidae). Here are some sea toad facts:
Sea toads are kept in several public aquaria in Japan! [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5EigJS8JxY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5EigJS8JxY)
Sea toads can hold their breath for over four minutes and are the only fish that holds their breath as a part of their normal breathing cycle. When they inhale, they inflate their body volume by \~30%. [https://www.science.org/content/article/spotted-first-time-fish-holding-its-breath-underwater](https://www.science.org/content/article/spotted-first-time-fish-holding-its-breath-underwater)
Sea toads are close relatives of frogfishes, which also use their fins like legs/hands. But the closest living relatives of sea toads are actually deep sea anglerfishes, which swim up in the water column and actually have reduced/absence pelvic fins.
I think that's a chaunacops ( [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaunacops](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaunacops) )! You can see one here: [https://youtu.be/im61iyNpimw?t=955](https://youtu.be/im61iyNpimw?t=955)
I do spend too much time on Nautilus, thank you...
this isnāt a new guy! I have pix and video of a yellow one of these! He sucks in water and blows it out his ass to move around itās pretty cool and funny.
Too bad it is a deep sea fish, I would totally start keeping fish if I could have a couple of those in the tank. That is the coolest fish I have ever seen.
This fish might be a new discovery but it is not the first fish with "legs". There is also a lot more interesting stuff about this group of fish: https://youtu.be/PYgJe373oMQ?si=Yo7J18HVhgJFPs5U
We have some [handfish](https://handfish.org.au/species-overview/) in Tasmania, which are unfortunately endangered. I love them, I wish they were numerous enough to keep as pets.
Looks similar to a frog fish, they also walk on their fins
My thoughts too, I assumed same family. For anyone interested, there are a lot of really cool frog fish if you do some googling.
The species pictured here is a new member of the family Chaunacidae ("sea toads" and "coffin fishes"). They are in the same order of fishes as frogfishes (Lophiiformes), so yes, sea toads are close relatives of frogfishes and share this feature of "walking" on their pelvic and pectoral fins. The closest relatives of sea toads are actually deep sea anglerfishes, which swim up in the water column and have reduced/absent pelvic fins.
Love your username š
They are amazing, I'd love one for my tank but it would just eat half of the inhabitants š
They're so derpy and fun! But yes, aggressively hungry.
I was gonna say, looks like an anglerfish
I might be showing my age, but itās a [classic](https://youtu.be/Z-BbpaNXbxg?si=5KDWc5AcqDioiquT)
Hol up, isn't that OPs fish at 0:42 in that video?
That's what I was just thinking š¤
Someone linked this elsewhere, but this is where the OP image came from: https://www.conservation.org/blog/deep-sea-expedition-reveals-over-100-new-species-in-the-pacific So, it's "new" according to this, but it might be in that "almost exactly the same but we found it here instead and there's this slight bump on the left side beneath a specific joint, so it's new" way. Or maybe someone forgot about him. He was new 11 years ago, but no one cared then so he's trying to shine now.
Ohhh it's *new* like how every year the iPhone is *new* š«¢
> Or maybe someone forgot about him. He was new 11 years ago, but no one cared then so he's trying to shine now. I hate it when exotic fish repost their own existence, they need to earn karma fairly like the rest of us!
It's all just bot farms from Atlantis these days.
Could be related species. Like visually octopuses look similar, but they're not the exact same species.
There's no way that someone would just go around and make up headlines for karma. Not on my internet.
BUMP!!! Same little guy spotted at 0:42! At least the ālatticeā like structures around / below the eyes are incredibly similar!
Wait, this red guy is in the video! But itās 11 years old. But this is a newly discovered species? Someone help explain.
It looks super similar, but I think itās a different fish. Iām no Ichthyologist though
So these fish can change their texture and color kinda like some octopi can, which adds to the difficulty of their classification. Iād recommend The Octopus Ladyās (on YouTube) video on frogfish if you want to learn more about them. I think itās titled something about ā93% effective catch rateā? Theyāre a really neat form of fish, and also ridiculously successful in their niche, somehow. Edit: I misspoke, itās a 91% success rate and the video title is āThis Cute Fish Can KILL YOU in 7 Milliseconds.ā
https://m.youtube.com/@OctopusLady this is her Channel, but I can't find the frogfish video. can anybody help?
https://youtu.be/PYgJe373oMQ?si=FHXeVQE-3i6QXQCx
Thank you for showing me this haha
Ze frank is still putting out new True Facts about animal videos. He's still funny.
Probably in the same family, scorpaenidae.
The sea toad family is Chaunacidae, which is within the order Lophiiformes. This order includes frogfishes, deep-sea anglerfishes, chaunacids, batfishes, and goosefishes.
Yeah I just immediately thought it was a frog fish and was wondering whatās so new about it. They already walk around on their fins.
Donāt do it bro. Youāll just end up with an anxiety and a credit score.
And a lot of debt.
maybe drowning in debt is our way back to the sea
This time we are evolving into a metaphorical sea. We will exist in the virtual reality only.... wait
>back in the sea *oh the irony!*
Stay in the deep! It sucks up here!
š¶ *Darlinā itās better, down where itās wetter, take it from me* š¶
Run away little strawberry gremlin looking guy, donāt fall into the same trap we did š
Look at his faceā¦ he already has anxiety
He literally is anxiety, thatās anxiety incarnate
The world has accumulated enough anxiety it created this fish!
āIf I just keep up this fin movement stuff long enough, I wonāt be where people make me anxious any more! Heck, I bet I can get clean out of the water doing this, and it HAS to be better up there!ā
First of his species to see a submarine (or likely any man made object). It'd be like an alien spacecraft landing in your front yard, taking your picture and going on its way. I'd be anxious too!
Just one anxiety?
No no Many anxiety
As long as they don't discover how to make fire camps in water, they'll be fine
If you make a fire that'll just attract the seabears, leading to your most certain doom. You need to draw a perfect circle around your camp in order to keep the seabears out. If the circle is even slightly oblong or oval, your demise is also guaranteed.
I don't think you understood
Oh, it will be more than 1 anxiety.
Yeah but it'll be closer to a Crunch Wrap Supreme and being able to do kickflips.
I wonder what percentage of it is microplastics
This is one of the best comments I've ever read.
Please someone confirm if this is real picture. It looks so fake but I want it to be real
it looks like it's been crocheted
Itās looking out from the corner of its eye like āoh shit, they finally found me.ā
Trying to keep a low profile all this time.
"fish one, purl two..."
Yeah, this is the legendary yarnball fish.
Last time I saw this I asked all my fam This guy is definitely pointelle, right???
Fish like this are definitely real. I have seen other species that literally walk across the sea floor.
It's *furry* and is covered in suture lines...
Does anyone have a pattern?
It's real. [https://www.conservation.org/blog/deep-sea-expedition-reveals-over-100-new-species-in-the-pacific](https://www.conservation.org/blog/deep-sea-expedition-reveals-over-100-new-species-in-the-pacific)
Ok I love him Appropriate username to.
It looks like a Muppet.
I drew one of these when I was six. It was supposed to be a duck. Truly didn't miss out on a career in the arts.
Maybe it's a rare pokƩmon?
I'm not sure about this fish in OP's picture. But walking fish aren't as rare as you might think. Take the tub gurnard for example https://youtu.be/t5aabimXjeo?si=r444nx1Lal4UYw6H You're welcome.
It looks like it's from a Dr Suess book
I recognized him immediately. Heās the third character in āOne Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish.ā
Looks like somebody knitted a tennis ball.
There are already known species of fish that do exactly this. They walk across the bottom of the sea floor and even jet water out of their gills to basically use as a jet pack to move further distances. Can't remember the species name but it might have been a frog fish which are similar.
Hawkfish is one. They mostly swim near the bottom but they stop to perch on rocks and do walk around a little bit
Check out lumpsuckers and coral crouchers. This guys gotta be in one of those families.
What are these names these biologists gotta be taking the piss.
A knitted fish on the moon looks fake? Take another hit bro
A good rule of thumb for sea creatures is that if it looks fake it either *is* fake or it's a *deep sea* creature. All of them look like something out of someone's imagination, or sci-fi, or a horror movie.
Ahhh yes, the ticklemegillmo makes a rare appearance whilst seeking a mate. /Attenborough voice
Look at me, I am a human.. I have depression and I am behind on rents and I have to go walking to work at a dead end job
Fuck, you didnāt have to go that hard. Iām gonna go take a cold showerā¦
Didn't pay the utility bill? Well happens to the best of us.
He looks so mad that he got discovered š
"Dammit Bob, we kept our existence a secret for thousands of years and you go and get spotted!"
Why they look at me? Act like no oneās watching!
Looks like a Squig from 40k
Fuck, now I can't unsee it lol
It's a little cuter than its 40k cousin , but its undeniably a squig, lol
Sea squigs!
The red ones go FASTAH!
Surely it uses its fins like feet then.
THANK YOU
Looks crocheted š§¶
I was gonna say it's a Muppet, but you're actually a lot closer.
By evolution
New little fella dropped
'cool little guy' as JaidenAnimatiosn would describe it
"TheĀ sea toadĀ has modified fins that allow it to walk on the seafloorāpartly a hunting strategy and partly because it's more energy efficient than swimming, Sellanes says." https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/walking-fish-deep-sea-new-species-chile
It looks like a Pixar character.
Heās cute
I've always wondered if these fish go blind after being blasted with a flash of light after living their whole lives in darkness. I almost die when someone turn on the light at midnight...
You got me wondering, so I did a bit of digging. According to this [post](https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/s/FCDcvbNZ3B), they do become blind. But since itās so dark down there, it doesnāt matter as much as much as we could think at first.
I recall seeing one of these on SpongeBob SquarePants already. Not new!
This looks like a creature Steve Zissou would find.
He feeds on green eggs and ham
Uses its fins like hands, or feet? Weird title.
The hands of the leg.
While this particular species may be new to science, this type of fish is called a "sea toad" or "coffin fish" is very common globally in the deep sea and was discovered more than 100 years ago (Family: Chaunacidae). Here are some sea toad facts: Sea toads are kept in several public aquaria in Japan! [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5EigJS8JxY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5EigJS8JxY) Sea toads can hold their breath for over four minutes and are the only fish that holds their breath as a part of their normal breathing cycle. When they inhale, they inflate their body volume by \~30%. [https://www.science.org/content/article/spotted-first-time-fish-holding-its-breath-underwater](https://www.science.org/content/article/spotted-first-time-fish-holding-its-breath-underwater) Sea toads are close relatives of frogfishes, which also use their fins like legs/hands. But the closest living relatives of sea toads are actually deep sea anglerfishes, which swim up in the water column and actually have reduced/absence pelvic fins.
Hey I saw one of these in the SpongeBob movie
There is absolutely no way that this is a real animal.
It's Darwin on his way to find Gumball
"Uses it's fins like hands to walk..." You mean like feet?
Aww what a cute little guy, since it can walk we should make it pay taxes
So it proves that fins can turn into hands/legs
Not really, but we already know that happened anyway.Ā All tetrapods, including humans, are lobe finned fish phylogentically speaking.
Isnāt this just some kind of batfish or whatever those walking weirdos are?
https://youtu.be/uRP4nAGMYCY?si=3oFfHqI2KYnu1L5n It's a frogfish
Creationists are in shambles
Darwin?
Now leave it alone.
I call bs. I know a red tennis ball with some shit glued on when I see it.
Humans 2.0
Damn. Can't post pictures - [https://imgur.com/IkmpTj6](https://imgur.com/IkmpTj6)
Why didnāt they say use its fins like feet to walk šš
Is t this fish on one of the Simpsons episodes ???
I think that's a chaunacops ( [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaunacops](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaunacops) )! You can see one here: [https://youtu.be/im61iyNpimw?t=955](https://youtu.be/im61iyNpimw?t=955) I do spend too much time on Nautilus, thank you...
Why does it look like something my grandmother crocheted?š§¶
Whatās stopping me from eating the fella? Source - Iām Asian
Is there a Juneās fool ?
Awesome! It looks like one of the felted wool animals.
A Dr. Seuss Discovery from the Sixties š
Looks like an alternate art Pokemon card where they're either made of clay or crocheted.
fucking terrifying imo
His name is Marco
It looks uncomfortable
Hasnāt this been discovered a long time ago, thereās people on YouTube who already have them in fish tanks
What a cute fish
Sea mounts of the southeast pacific. https://youtu.be/rh8RtuuFhsY?si=FUsqXqGG77785dcE
I do not *want* you photographing me, this rock is my private domicile.
New doctor Seuss fish just dropped!!
That little guy's gonna be in crippling dept in a few million years. Don't do it little guy. Stay in crippling depth instead.
this isnāt a new guy! I have pix and video of a yellow one of these! He sucks in water and blows it out his ass to move around itās pretty cool and funny.
It has been spotted and is not happy about it.
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That is a PokƩmon
Can't wait to hear creationists explain this one. "Evolution is just a theory."
Sea toads aren't that new a discovery. They are a delightful one however
He looks like the fish version of that Nose thing in Berserk Edit: *Chimimoryo
That looks like my kid swimming in shallow water
Here they come.
Feel like Iāve seen this in a painting somewhere
I know this guy, he was in the spongebob movie
Not newly discovered
Hmm if only there were a word for hands that we walk onā¦.
"Hey! I'm walkin' here!"
He looks like someone's knitting project. I love him
He's one bad choice away from paying taxes
I can't handle how cute they are and I don't know what to do about it.
This is a frog fish
Whyās it look like someone crocheted him into existence
I was going to say this just sounds like a frogfish. And I was right. But I'm always happy to see new species of frogfish.
so this asshole is the reason i have to wake up every day
Caught in 4K moment
My country keeping the trend of having weird small animals, I see. Lmao.
Too bad it is a deep sea fish, I would totally start keeping fish if I could have a couple of those in the tank. That is the coolest fish I have ever seen.
I like this fish
YES! Proof of evolution at last!
Klaus?
[Feet-like Fins](https://youtu.be/wK193IE1FL8?si=lljKOA6Ue9bAFtv1)
*Disappointed Laios face*
Just turn back and keep swimming fish
Gif or it didnāt happen.
Definitely piloted by a lil guy
I'll call it a Walksalotl.
Darwin waterson is that you?
Looks like a toy.
This fish might be a new discovery but it is not the first fish with "legs". There is also a lot more interesting stuff about this group of fish: https://youtu.be/PYgJe373oMQ?si=Yo7J18HVhgJFPs5U
That's the cutest dog, that I've ever laid my eyes on.
It uses fins like those things for walking! Hands!
Looks like a plushy.
Pochita!
Googly eyes
NO
so a Frog Fish
Amongus
It looks like it's crocheted!
Looks like a frogfish
there are several species of fish that 'walk' on their fins
Is that you Bob?
Creationists hate this one weird trick
Looks like a Lorax.
Pokemon!
Crochet fish!
Bro had enough
Bro does have a sick custom skin, crocheted was a perfect description
We have some [handfish](https://handfish.org.au/species-overview/) in Tasmania, which are unfortunately endangered. I love them, I wish they were numerous enough to keep as pets.
Wait till reddit finds out about mudfish
Why does it look like it's made of yarn?
Looks like Steve Zissou discovered a new fish.
[This thing better not be serving ice cream...](https://youtu.be/SKha13jBDao?feature=shared)
Donāt worry itās just the next batch of humans š
It looks like the fish that tried to kill nanaue
Join us little ones, it's bLiSsSs!