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{{sfnp|Mitchill|1813|p=405}} There was [[Christian Franz Paullini|Paullini]]'s ''monstrum marinum'' glossed as a sea crab ({{lang-de|Seekrabbe}}),<ref name=paullinus/> which a later biologist has suggested to be one of the ''[[Hyas (genuscrab)|Hyas spp.]]''<ref name="loven"/> It was also described as resembling Gesner's ''Cancer heracleoticus'' crab alleged to appear off the Finnish coast.<ref name="paullinus"/>{{sfnp|Lee|1875|p=100}} [[Karl August von Bergen|von Bergen]]'s "''{{linktext|bellua |marina |omnium |vastissima}}''" (meaning 'vastest-of-all sea-beast'), namely the ''trolwal'' ('ogre whale', 'troll whale') of Northern Europe, and the ''Teufelwal'' ('devil whale') of the Germans follow in the list.{{sfnp|Heuvelmans|2015|p=91}}{{sfnp|Mitchill|1813|p=405}}