basket fish

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A kind of Medusa's-head or ophiurian, Astrophyton agassizi; a euryalean sand-star of the family Astrophytidæ, found on the coast of New England: so named by Governor John Winthrop of Connecticut, about 1670.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun any starfish-like animal of the genera Euryale or Astrophyton or Gorgonocephalus having slender complexly branched interlacing arms radiating from a central disc