MUIRHEAD`S MYSTERIES: THE LUHENG FISH - A MYSTERY HONG KONG LAMPREY OR MER-BEING?

This cryptid is new to me,I mean I only came across it on the Web about 2 months ago. It appears to have been some sort of aquatic creature. This is one account of it from May 22^nd 2010. in the original “Chinglish.”

“ Luheng fish, but also for Lu Ting fish is a Tai O in Hong Kong [on the N.W. coast of Lantau Island,in 1985 when I left Hong Kong this was a fishing village-R.]. and Zhuhai Wanshan Islands [includes the Lema islands which could be seen from my bedroom window in Hong Kong looking south, see map] area infested mysterious ethnic group. About their mysterious legends, from the Eastern Jin Dynasty[265-420 C.E.-R] to the present has been circulated. The so-called “Luheng fish” or “ Lu Ting fish,” are some of the general appearance of people who are different, in Hong Kong legends refer to their body of a scaly, and love to suck genitals  [Sic! I presume this means a sucking action like a leech. Or a lamprey-R] Sometimes use the catch and Tai O residents for chicken farm also gained when the dive. In fact, as early as the Eastern Jin Dynasty when it has been documented on “Lu Ting man” argument, but these Lu Ting description of the person, and today on “Luheng fish” were different legends. So although “Luheng fish” is actually “Lu Ting fish” in the word of the turn, but the argument has not been confirmed. “(1)

It`s hard to know what to make of this. There have been dugong in Hong Kong waters until recent times,but they weren`t confined to Lantau. The problem with the lamprey or mer-being identity is that neither are scaly.

1.  X Superstar Superman May 22 2010 http://hkg.westkit.net/?p=v&id=2325119&page=2