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Super-eels (French: super anguille) are a Heuvelmans type of sea serpent, an admitted wastebin category containing reports of giant eels and serpentine sharks, for which Heuvelmans suggested the name snark.[1][2] It is synonymous with the mega-eel in the Marshall system.[3] The type was based on twenty-three sightings of such disparate animals, twelve certain and eleven probable, with up to forty-one possible additional reports.[4]
Sightings of sea serpents in this type are cosmopolitan, with a notable mottled variety confined to the Mediterranean. Bernard Heuvelmans believed most of them to be deep-sea animals.[4] The Coleman-Huyghe system merges the super-eel with the many-humped sea serpent and super-otter to form the classic sea serpent,[5] while the Champagne system has three eel-like types but no direct equivalent. Dale A. Drinnon splits the super-eel into two size-based subtypes, the megaconger and titanoconger.[6]
Notes and references[]
- ↑ Heuvelmans, Bernard "Annotated Checklist of Apparently Unknown Animals With Which Cryptozoology Is Concerned", Cryptozoology, No. 5 (1986)
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Marshall, Carl "21st Century Sea Serpents," Animals & Men, No. 64–65 (June 2018)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Heuvelmans, Bernard (1968) In the Wake of the Sea-Serpents, Hart-Davis, ISBN 9780246643124
- ↑ Coleman, Loren & Huyghe, Patrick (2003) The Field Guide to Lake Monsters, Sea Serpents and Other Mystery Denizens of the Deep, TarcherPerigree, ISBN 978-1585422524
- ↑ Drinnon, Dale A. "Revised Checklist of Cryptozoological Creatures," CFZ Yearbook (2010)