Incredible, and even down to the speech patterns this Hoser fellow sounds like a pretty typical troll. Unfortunately the herpetologists seem to be not unlike fairly typical victims of trolls in that they are very much on the back foot and having to wait on slow bureaucracy. At the end of the day it does sound like another form of walled garden, this time a restricted herpetological taxonomic database, is probably going to be the way to go.
