Riesenkraken Mythologie. Allerdings wird Enteroctopus membranaceus oft als Nomen dubium betrachtet, da die ursprüngliche Beschreibung als nicht ausreichend angesehen wird, der Holotyp ein juveniles Exemplar war und darüber hinaus nicht mehr existiert.

Robson sah Enteroctopus membranaceus als junior synonym von Enteroctopus megalocyathus , andere Autoren folgen den Auffassungen zu Enteroctopus membranaceus und erachten damit Enteroctopus megalocyathus als Typusart.

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Today I sailed through its mouth because I knew that it had recently surfaced. The famous Swedish 18th century naturalist Carl Linnaeus included the kraken in the first edition of its systematic natural catalog Systema Naturae from There he gave the animal the scientific name Microcosmus, but omitted it in later editions.

Pontoppidan also proposed that a specimen of the monster, "perhaps a young and careless one", was washed ashore and died at Alstahaug in Kraken, also called the Crab-fish, which is not that huge, for heads and tails counted, he is no larger than our Öland is wide [i.

He stays at the sea floor, constantly surrounded by innumerable small fishes, who serve as his food and are fed by him in return: for his meal, if I remember correctly what E.

Pontoppidan writes, lasts no longer than three months, and another three are then needed to digest it. His excrements nurture in the following an army of lesser fish, and for this reason, fishermen plumb after his resting place Gradually, Kraken ascends to the surface, and when he is at ten to twelve fathoms , the boats had better move out of his vicinity, as he will shortly thereafter burst up, like a floating island, spurting water from his dreadful nostrils and making ring waves around him, which can reach many miles.

Could one doubt that this is the Leviathan of Job? The much larger second type, the colossal octopus , was reported to have attacked a sailing vessel from Saint-Malo , off the coast of Angola.

Montfort later dared more sensational claims. He proposed that ten British warships, including the captured French ship of the line Ville de Paris , which had mysteriously disappeared one night in , must have been attacked and sunk by giant octopi.

The British, however, knew—courtesy of a survivor from Ville de Paris —that the ships had been lost in a hurricane off the coast of Newfoundland in September , resulting in a disgraceful revelation for Montfort.

Since the late 18th century, kraken have been depicted in a number of ways, primarily as large octopus-like creatures , and it has often been alleged that Pontoppidan's kraken might have been based on sailors' observations of the giant squid.

The kraken is also depicted to have spikes on its suckers. In the earliest descriptions, however, the creatures were more crab -like [17] than octopus -like, and generally possessed traits that are associated with large whales rather than with giant squid.

An ancient, giant cephalopod resembling the legendary kraken has been proposed as responsible for the deaths of ichthyosaurs during the Triassic Period.

Although fictional and the subject of myth, the legend of the Kraken continues to the present day, with numerous references existing in film, literature, television, and other popular culture topics.

During the United States presidential election , American attorney Sidney Powell repeatedly threatened to "release the Kraken" in statements relating to lawsuits asserting claims of voting fraud allegedly responsible for Joe Biden 's election victory.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Legendary sea monster. For other uses, see Kraken disambiguation. Main article: Kraken in popular culture.

Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. The Free Online Dictionary. Svenska Akademiens ordbok in Swedish.

German Unabridged Dictionary 4th ed. Harper Collins. The Kraken. Lizars, Edinburgh. New Books: An Essay on the credibility of the Kraken.

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