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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]
Notes and references[]
- ↑ Eberhart, George M. (2002) Mysterious Creatures: A Guide to Cryptozoology, ABC-CLIO, Inc., ISBN 1576072835
- ↑ Heuvelmans, Bernard (1968) In the Wake of the Sea-Serpents, Hart-Davis, ISBN 9780246643124
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Mackal, Roy P. (1980) Searching for Hidden Animals: An Inquiry Into Zoological Mysteries, Cadogan Books, ISBN 978-0946313051
- ↑ Marshall, Carl "21st Century Sea Serpents," Animals & Men, No. 64–65 (June 2018)