fish with arthropod-like "legs"?

I think that could be almost anyone of these scorpaeniformes with fins modified into multiple arthopod-like legs, combined with something like a distortion of my memory/camera zooming, or in some, perhaps younger, growth stage in which the "trunk" of the fish is comparatively smaller with its "legs", if something like that happens with any of them.
 
Buffalo Roam said:
http://www.dinofish.com/

Virtually unique in the animal kingdom, with a saga steeped in science and popular imagination, the fabulous Coelacanth ("see-la-kanth"), that 400 million year old "living fossil" fish, paddles on. Pre-dating the dinosaurs by millions of years and once thought to have gone extinct with them, 65 million years ago, the Coelacanth with its "missing link" "proto legs" was "discovered" alive and well in 1938! At least three people have perished in the quest for the coelacanth, and possibly several others.
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And they sell for a ton of money in Animal Crossing!

Not that I would know... or anything.

My wife plays the game... I think....

:(
 
I think I found your fish!

Ok I have been looking for this fish too and the site won't let me put on the link because I am a new member but please go to youtube and type in "fish with legs" view the fourth video by nancymizuno and let me know if this is your fish. Thanks!
 
After some more searching I think I've found it. Try: Eutrigla gurnardus
Grey gurnard. This particular species seems to have longer crab-like appendages which are modified pectoral fins.
 
There's something that they call a mud puppy in North America--not sure of its scientific name, and I think it might be an amphibean anyway, rather than a fish.
 
It's called Axolotl, also known as Mexican Goldfish, and it's an anphibian. Possibly the missing link between fish and terrain animals. You can find several videos on Youtube.
 
fishhugger said:
After some more searching I think I've found it. Try: Eutrigla gurnardus
Grey gurnard. This particular species seems to have longer crab-like appendages which are modified pectoral fins.
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I think was one of those, or something related to it (gurnard/scorpaeniformes), only with some camera zoom "cheat" that made those leg-like things look reasonably bigger.

There are quite a few videos on youtube where we can see they use those "webless fins" as arthropod-like legs.

This video is the best one so far:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49LmGLh3bcc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owKcxRYWIMA&feature=related

It's somewhat odd that it seems that's something that requires more effort than just swimming very slowly and scrapping the bottom. I wonder why they do it. Swimming, even if very slowly most likely would agitate more water, perhaps this crawl is used to not be perceived by other animals that would notice the swimming undulations on the water, prey or predators.
 
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