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What is a frogfish?

What is a frogfish? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Any of several benthic anglerfish, of the family Antennariidae, having a frog-like mouth with a lure.
  2. Any of the benthic ray-finned fish of the family Batrachoididae (the sole family of order Batrachoidiformes), which are ambush predators and have a toad-like appearance.
  3. (archaic) Any fish of genus Lophius.
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Painted frogfish vary greatly in colour and texture, and these ones were covered in sediment.
So it's possible for a dark brown frogfish with a hairy body to be the very same species as a white frogfish with almost smooth skin.
When using jet-propulsion, a frogfish appears to levitate and drift along using its fins as stabilizers.
A male frogfish courts a mature female by spreading all of his fins, jerking his body, and nibbling her as she swaggers across the ocean floor.
Awkward swimmers, frogfish overcome this problem by using jet propulsion to improve their poor swimming ability.
The frogfish settled on the bottom and crawled around on its two froglike webbed paws.

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