List of piscine and amphibian humanoids

Piscine and amphibian humanoids (people with the characteristics of fish or amphibians) have made appearances throughout mythology, cryptozoology, folklore and fiction.

In mythology

• Adaro from the mythology of the Solomon Islands
• Atargatis from Assyrian mythology
• Dagon in Semitic mythology
• Ea from Babylonian mythology
• Glaucus: a mortal transformed into a merman in Greek mythology
• Heqet: Ancient Egyptian frog-headed goddess of fertility.
• Huh: Ancient Egyptian frog-headed god whose name means "endlessness".
• Iaras from Brazilian mythology
• Matsya, an avatar of Vishnu in piscine form
• Oannes from Babylonian mythology
• Pincoys and La Sirena chilota, princess of the sea from Chilote mythology
• Rusalki from Slavic mythology
• Triton, the son of Poseidon
• Vodyanoy from Slavic mythology

In folklore

• The Amabie from Japanese folklore
• The ceasg in Scottish folklore
• The each uisge or "water horse" from Scottish folklore, could assume the form of a man
• Finfolk from the folklore of Orkney
• The Grindylow from the folklore of Yorkshire
• Jenny Greenteeth from English folklore
• Peg Powler from English folklore
• The Kappa from Japanese folklore
• Melusine in European folklore
• The Neck from Scandinavian folklore
• The Ningyo from Japanese folklore
• Merrows from Irish folklore
• Selkies in Scottish folklore
• Sirens, while initially described as birdlike, were associated with mermaids in later folklore

In cryptozoology

• The Bishop-fish in Poland
• Fiji mermaid: a hoax exhibited by P. T. Barnum
• The fish-man of Liérganes in Spain
• The Loveland Frog, in Loveland, Ohio
• The sea monk in Denmark

In fiction

• Abe Sapien and the "frog monsters" from the Hellboy comics
• Aulbath (aka Rikou) from the video game series, Darkstalkers, by Capcom
• Aquaman, from the DC Comics Universe
• The Battletoads, from the videogame of the same name.
• Crazy Frog
• Deep Ones from H. P. Lovecraft's The Shadow Over Innsmouth
• Fishmen are a race of fish-like humans form One Piece.
• Frog-Man and Frog-Man (Ani-Men) from the Marvel Comics Universe
• The Frogman, a character from the Oz novel series
• Gill-man from The Creature From the Black Lagoon
• Gowachin from Frank Herbert's novels Whipping Star and The Dosadi Experiment.
• Grendel and Grendel's mother from Beowulf
• Gungans from Star Wars
• Hynerians from Farscape
• Ichtiandr from Amphibian Man by Alexander Belyayev
• Kermit the Frog from the Muppets
• Marsh-wiggles from The Chronicles of Narnia
• The Little Mermaid, from the tales of Hans Christian Andersen
• Mer-Man from the Masters of the Universe franchise
• Mudluks are a species of amphibian humanoids found in Arcangrove in AdventureQuest Worlds.
• Murloc are a species of amphibious creatures which live in tribes in World of Warcraft.
• Neptuna, the mermaid-like boss in Croc: Legend of the Gobbos.
• Sil, from Doctor Who
• The TigerSharks in the cartoon series of the same name.
• Mr. Toad from The Wind in the Willows
• Zoras from The Legend of Zelda

See also

• List of fictional extraterrestrials
• List of reptilian humanoids
• List of avian humanoids
• Jenny Haniver