Sketch by witness Mokka
Umokka , a fish cryptid reported from Puri, India. sighted by a Japanese and introduced, only in Japan.
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Sightings[]
In 1997, a Japanese person using the handle Mokka visited Puri, a city located on the Bay of Bengal coast of India, on a trip and stayed there for a while. He took a daily walk to a fishing village on the outskirts of the city and made it a routine to watch the results of the fishermen's catch. One morning, as he was looking at his catch as usual, he noticed an unfamiliar fish among the numerous sharks.
It was brown, larger in length than he was tall (he was about 6 feet tall), had scales resembling those of a reptile or pineapple with spines, and two pairs of limb-like fins resembling those of a coelacanth. The head resembled that of a lizard, only the upper part of the head was smooth and without scales, and the mouth was densely lined with fine teeth.
Mokka posted this experience on a cryptid enthusiast's forum, and a viewer of this post combined Mokka with uo, which means fish in Japanese, and named the fish Umokka.
Explanations[]
It is believed that Umokka is most likely a bramble shark, a theory that is plausible given its similarity in appearance to the cryptid sketch and its distribution range. On the other hand, the presence of limb-like fins and the number of gills depicted in the sketch have led some to reject this opinion. One person claimed that Mokka's posted sketches of other creatures are very accurate and pointed out that umokka is not a bramble shark, but it is known that Mokka drew the wrong number of legs and eye positions in his sketch of the lobster. Some who believe Mokka's explanation is correct believe it is a survivor of Eusthenopteron or Xenacanthus, but this is unlikely due to lack of geographic and temporal consistency.
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