The story
A blend of fish + tetrapod, Coined by American paleontologist Neil Shubin circa 2006. Analyzable as fish + -a- + -pod
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
fishapod
Today it means: Any of several extinct creatures of the subclass Tetrapodomorpha having features both of fish and tetrapods, especially Tiktaalik. Full definition →