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"... Fins on either side of their bodies have, as with other frogfish, evolved to be leg-like, "

And they know these "leg-lke" apendages have evolved from earlier being like more typical fins -- how? Are there fossils showing the fin changes in so-called frog-fish, or is this just another one of those assumptions that keeps getting into the mix, and is called "science"?

And this from a guy who admits

He'd had two specimen of a new species of fish for 17 years, but didn't know it.

even though the folks that shipped the samples to him informed him they were different, and notably "unusual", but since they were faded out, he assumed (ok, i'm guessing here) they didn't know what they were talking about --- even though it was coming from a U.S. based municipal Aquarium??? Ha. Sounds a lot like some of the marine biologists I've dealt with. They seem to assume that no knows anything much, other than themselves...

Years ago, I pointed out to a biologist that what was classified as being "one species" was actually two, but got argued with, up one side, and down the other.

Now the law recognizes that these overlapping populations of very similar deep water fish are two, and have different harvest limits for them, also. But I can tell you, from an informed point of view, the laws concerning them are all but FUBAR. They screwed it up so much, not only from the beginning, but all along the line, that they, the fishery managers don't even know what was harvested. The "numbers" are as much fiction as truth. (one species got counted as another, for a very long time...even after the regs were implemented, since the regs themselves were bass-akwards concerning the proportional numbers of each species in respect to the other, and the fisherman could get away with pushing one kind across the dock as the other --- it FURTHER re-inforced the errors!)

Now, the "numbers they go by" are written in stone, but it's still FUBAR! Scientists, oh how I love them. Why do they so often have to be such over-educated dumbasses???