The Coleman-Huyghe system is a system of categorising sea serpent and lake monster sightings developed by Loren Coleman and Patrick Huyghe. It was the first full system which attempted to categorise not only large unknown sea animals, but also lake monsters,[1] something later attempted by an update to the Champagne system in 2016.
The fourteen Coleman-Huyghe types are the classic sea serpent, waterhorse, mystery cetacean, giant shark, mystery manta, great sea centipede, mystery saurian, cryptid chelonian, mystery sirenian, giant beaver, mystery monitor, dinosauria, mystery salamander, and giant octopus.[1] The mystery cetacean, giant shark, and mystery sirenian categories cover multiple unknown animals.[2]
Notes and references[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Coleman, Loren & Huyghe, Patrick (2003) The Field Guide to Lake Monsters, Sea Serpents and Other Mystery Denizens of the Deep, TarcherPerigree, ISBN 978-1585422524
- ↑ Woodley, Michael (2008) In the Wake of Bernard Heuvelmans: An Introduction to the History and Future of Sea Serpent Classification, CFZ Press, ISBN 978-1905723201