The yellow belly (French: jaune) is a Heuvelmans type of sea serpent resembling an enormous yellow tadpole 60–100 ft (18–30 m) long, reported from tropical regions of the Indian and Pacific Oceans.[1] An ambiguous type of uncertain taxonomic affinities, based mainly upon the Nestor (1876) sighting, Heuvelmans did not assign a binomial name to it,[2] and later abandoned it as a type.[3] It has not been restored by alternative classification systems, with Roy P. Mackal classifying the sightings as salp chains,[4] and the Marshall system subsuming it into the mega-eel type.[5]
