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The sea monk (also monk-fish or monkfish) was a sea creature found off the eastern coast of the Danish island of Zealand, almost certainly in 1546.〔Paxton, C. G. M. & R. Holland (2005). Was Steenstrup Right? A new interpretation of the 16th century sea monk of the Øresund. ''Steenstrupia'' 29: 39–47.〕 It was described as a "fish" that looked superficially like a monk, and was mentioned and pictured in the fourth volume of Conrad Gesner's famous ''Historia Animalium''. Gesner also referenced a similar monster found in the Firth of Forth, according to Boethius, and a sighting off the coast of Poland in 1531. The sea monk was subsequently popularised in Guillaume du Bartas's epic poem ''La Sepmaine; ou, Creation du monde'', where the poet speaks of correspondences between land and sea, mentioning both the "mytred Bishop" and the "cowled Fryer": : In the early 1850s, Danish zoologist Japetus Steenstrup suggested that the sea-monk was a giant squid,〔Steenstrup, J.J.S. (1855). Om den i Kong Christian IIIs tid i Øresundet fanget Havmund (Sømunken kaldet) ''Dansk Maanedsskrift'' 1: 63–96.〕 a theory more recently popularised by writer Richard Ellis.〔Ellis, R. (1998). ''The Search for the Giant Squid''. Lyons Press. London.〕 Cryptozoologist Bernard Heuvelmans believed the report was based on the discovery of an errant walrus.〔Heuvelmans, B. (1974). ''Dans le Sillage des Monstres Marins''. Famot. Geneva.〕 More recently, it has been suggested that it was an angel shark ''Squatina squatina'', which is commonly called "monkfish" in English or ''munk'' in Norwegian and Danish.〔 Other suggested suspects for the sea monk include a grey seal, a hooded seal, a monk seal, or a hoax such as a Jenny Haniver.〔 ==See also== * Bishop-fish * Dagon * Umibōzu * Jenny Havier 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sea monk」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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