sentences:  Although billed as a "mermaid", this has also been bluntly referred to as a "Barnum's merman" in one piece of journalism.A similar fake "mermaid" at the Horniman Museum has also been reassessed by another curator as a "merman".DNA testing was inconclusive as to species (and nothing on gender was disclosed), but despite being catalogued as a "Japanese Monkey-fish", it was determined to contain no monkey parts, but only the teeth, scales, etc.