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Samuel Garman

  • Zoologist
  • United States
  • 1843–1927

Samuel Garman was an American zoologist who studied fish and reptiles at Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology.

In 1884 he described the frilled shark as a new species based on specimens collected in Sagami Bay, Kanagawa Prefecture. His paper was titled “An Extraordinary Shark,” and its primitive form astonished researchers.

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Frilled Shark

A deep-sea shark that retains a primitive form. Long and slender like an eel, it has been suggested as the true identity of sea serpents. It was described as a new species in 1884 from specimens from Sagami Bay, Japan.

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