According to the nonfiction cryptozoology book ''Searching for Ropens and Finding God'' (fourth edition), the ropen is "A modern [[pterosaur]] with ''Rhamphorhynchoid'' characteristics." Not yet officially acknowledged in Western biology, the name of this cryptid comes from the Kovai language on Umboi Island in Papua New Guinea. | According to the nonfiction cryptozoology book ''Searching for Ropens and Finding God'' (fourth edition), the ropen is "A modern [[pterosaur]] with ''Rhamphorhynchoid'' characteristics." Not yet officially acknowledged in Western biology, the name of this cryptid comes from the Kovai language on Umboi Island in Papua New Guinea. |