Frankly speaking, it's ugly! But it's look really share some charateristics with lizards. Perhaps this endangered species stopped evolving in time for some reasons (very likely geologically) heheh...
Just a wild thought, would it be our ancestors? ... joking!
I was forced to eat this kind of fish that served in a dinner with chinese officials in a dinner some twenty years ago by that was said to be still legal ,not taste good at all