title: The anatomy of the mermaid.
abstract: Investigation of the anatomy of the mermaid and of mermaid lore has revealed a tangled web of stories, sightings and specimens of the most diverse nature, extending worldwide into the realms of folklore and legend, zoology and cryptozoology, anatomy, physiology, radiography and folk medicine, ethnography, social history and the history of science.  The stereotype we know as the mermaid is surely a fit subject for further serious study
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authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Heppell
mesh_terms: D000715:Anatomy / Q000266:history*; D005495:Folklore; D049711:History, Modern 1601-; D015046:Zoology / Q000266:history*