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The multiple-humped sea serpent, or simply multi-humped sea serpent, is a sea serpent type in most classification systems.[1] Alongside the longneck, the multiple-humped is one of the two best-known and most-frequently reported types of sea serpent, and has a long history.
The New England humped sea serpent was the first type of sea serpent to be the subject of a scientific investigation,[2] and the early Rafinesque system was devised to classify some reports.[3] The many-humped sea serpent (Plurigibbosus novaeangliae; French: multi-bosses), the version in the Heuvelmans system, was theorised by Bernard Heuvelmans to be a descendant of Eocene zeuglodons, or basilosaurids,[2] but was reinterpreted by Michael Woodley as a giant sea otter.[3] It was one of the three original types in the Champagne system, accounting for almost a third of the reports Bruce A. Champagne classified as valid,[4] while the Coleman-Huyghe system combines it with the similarly-serpentine super-otter and super-eel to form the classic sea serpent, which they speculate to be a zeuglodon.[5]
Like the longneck, it has been speculated to move into, or in some cases be resident in,[6] freshwater rivers, lakes, and marshes, explaining a number of lake monsters and similar cryptids.[1][6]
Notes and references[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Eberhart, George M. (2002) Mysterious Creatures: A Guide to Cryptozoology, ABC-CLIO, Inc., ISBN 1576072835
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Heuvelmans, Bernard (1968) In the Wake of the Sea-Serpents, Hart-Davis, ISBN 9780246643124
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 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
- ↑ Champagne, Bruce A. "A Classification System for Large, Unidentified Marine Animals Based on the Examination of Reported Observations," Elementum Bestia: Being an Examination of Unknown Animals of the Air, Earth, Fire and Water (2007), Lulu Press, ASIN B001DSIB2W
- ↑ Coleman, Loren & Huyghe, Patrick (2003) The Field Guide to Lake Monsters, Sea Serpents and Other Mystery Denizens of the Deep, TarcherPerigree, ISBN 978-1585422524
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "A Preliminary, Comparative Type Proposal For Large, Unidentified Marine and Freshwater Animals," The Journal of Cryptozoology Vol. 4 (December 2016)