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Palermo, December 24, 2020 – Extremely rare to find a Palermo: a giant blanket, which weighs about 400 kilograms and 378 centimeters in length, was identified and recovered last night in the small port of the Sicilian capital. The 330-centimeter-wide specimen was seen when it was already lifeless.
The corpse was found in the depths of the Palermo cove and was brought to the surface by firefighters through a crane. Subsequently, it was taken to the Sicilian Experimental Zooprophylactic Institute, in Palermo, for functional sampling to identify the species pending a necroscopy complete.
Your biometric data will now be added to the international elasmobranch database (Medlem). “If someone had reported the presence of the stingray still alive – said Salvatore Seminara, special commissioner of Izs Sicily – we would have tried to expel it and probably we would not have been injured.” Then he added: “Given the importance and rarity of this specimen in the Mediterranean, the hypothesis is being raised that it can be taxidermized or put in a case with a liquid for its conservation and used for educational-informative purposes.”
The reasons why the manta ray came to the marina have yet to be clarified. There are those who suppose that he was dragged to the place by a fishing boat that later, having reached the cove, could not hoist him aboard the boat. But these are only hypotheses, waiting for the tests to finally clarify the dynamics of what happened.
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