HEAVY SKEPTICISM
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/feb/24/stingray-catch-thailand-fishing
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/4798131/British-biologist-catches-55-stone-record-breaking-stingray.html
I should have said, "reported as" biggest freshwater fish ever caught using a rod.
I found this listing of Cryptids online:
http://www.strangeark.com/checklist/asia.html
Ray: Giant freshwater ray, unknown species
Reported from Mekong River, Thailand and Laos
Sehm 1993-1996
This bears further examination. I do not know if the above article/photo corresponds with "Sehm". Whoever "Sehm" is, I want to find out.
I'm getting closer...
Sehm, G.G. 1993-1996. On a possible unknown species of giant devil ray, Manta sp. Cryptozoology 12: 19-29.
http://forteanzoology.blogspot.com/2009/06/dale-drinnon-references-for-chrcklist.html
The Waitoreki of New Zealand - Marsupial or Monotreme? in Tuatara: Volume 30, Issue 1, December 1988
http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-Bio30Tuat01-t1-body-d8.html
Krumbiegel, I., and G. G. Sehm. 1989. The geographic variability of the plains bison. A reconstruction using the earliest European illustrations of both subspecies. Archives of Natural History 16(2): 169-190.
I found this listing of Cryptids online:
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Ray: Giant freshwater ray, unknown species
Reported from Mekong River, Thailand and Laos
Sehm 1993-1996
This bears further examination. I do not know if the above article/photo corresponds with "Sehm". Whoever "Sehm" is, I want to find out.
WARNING: HEAVY SKEPTICISM NEEDED
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Unidentified skates and rays: Marine division:
Gunter Sehm in CRYPTOZOLOGY indicates that the type specimen of manta rays is an unidentified species, and further notes that there are a number of other unidentified species, some indicated as being of immense size (50 feet across or more) These last of course could only be bad exaggerations.
The Alpha sea serpent is indicated by Heuvelmans (Wake) as being a ray, but its characteristics are unlike mantas, and it may represent a new kind of outsized eagle ray.
Freshwater division:
Ivan Sanderson's outsized stingray from the Cross river is apparantly still unclassified. Sanderson's files indicate a large number of unidentified freshwater rays, especially from the tropics, but they are poorly differentiated.
The Tigris and Euphrates river systems apparently had a form of freshwater ray with the appearance of horns over its eyes, known in Sumerian as Kushkarikku, or goat-skate, the original form of Capricorn (the goatfish) It is not known if these still exist.
There are unknown rays in Malaysia, the Phillipines, the Fly River in New Guinea and other places according to information in Eberhart. These are commonly in the size range of 4 to 6 feet across and 8 to 12 feet in length
There is an unknown ray in the Rio Negro in South America. This is possible relatable to the cuero or "hide", being a flat creature with eyespots (Ocelli) around the margin; one of its names actually IS "Manta".
The Water Leaper of Wales is evidently a similar creature, with a toad face and batlike wings but NO LEGS: it apparently jumps out of water like a mini-manta.
The Kongamato of Africa would be a similar "Batwinged" water monster; NB that it jumps out of water and is supposed to upset canoes. There are apparantly separate analogues of this in Central and West Africa, and the confusion of these with some sort of flying reptile may be general; Charles Gould in Mythical Monsters notes the production of "Jenny hanivers" from West Africa since early times.
hmmm
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http://www.amazon.de/Winnetou-I-Gesammelte-Werke-07/dp/3780200074
ReplyDeleteGunter G. Sehm: The Chosen One. The narrative structures in Karl May's' Winnetou' trilogy. In: Yearbook of the Karl May Society (Jb-CMM) in 1976.
Address
ReplyDeleteDr. Gunter G. Sehm
http://www.mcadvo.com/DE/en/rechtsanwalt_hamburg/130_1149462bd_Gunter_G_Sehm_22609_Hamburg.html
Julius-Brecht-Str. 11
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Languages: German
Beebe's Manta
http://books.google.com/books?id=z9gMsCUtCZUC&pg=PA43&lpg=PA43&dq=Gunter+Sehm&source=bl&ots=JSWrfpil1S&sig=CXN_qcvqd0lAprKyFjTEdQwHrr8&hl=en&ei=UrNoS9i-OseUtgepvM3lBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CBAQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=Gunter%20Sehm&f=false
Eberhart's Mysterious Creatures, Vol 2
new site I found (note many fish species shown are not native, but recreational introductions)
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