List of aquatic humanoids

"Ancient sea deities" have been regarded as the "earliest version of a human-fish hybrid".^[3] Creatures with a human torso and the tail of a fish appear in the myths of cultures around the world and persist in contemporary popular culture.^{[2]: 6 [3][4]}

Humanoids with the characteristics of fish

• The amabie from Japanese folklore^[5][a]
• The ceasg in Scottish folklore has the upper body of a beautiful woman merging with the tail of a grilse (a young salmon)^[6][7]
• Finfolk from the folklore of Orkney
• Melusine in European folklore
• Merrows from Irish folklore
• The Neck from Scandinavian folklore
• The Ningyo from Japanese folklore
• Sirens, while initially described as birdlike, but have become associated with mermaids in later folklore.
• The Umibōzu from Japanese folklore

• Fiji mermaid, taxidermic hoax perpetuated by PT Barnum.

• Grendel and Grendel's mother from Beowulf
• Caliban from William Shakespeare's play The Tempest.
• The Little Mermaid, from Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales (1837)
• The underwater people from H. G. Wells's story "In the Abyss" (1896)^[8]
• The harbor master from Robert W. Chambers's story "The Harbor-Master" (1899)^[9]
• The fish man from Irvin S. Cobb's story "Fishhead" (1913)^[9]
• Ichthyander from Alexander Belyayev's Amphibian Man (1928)^[10]
• The Deep Ones from H. P. Lovecraft's The Shadow Over Innsmouth (1936)^[9][b]
• The Myposans from Edgar Rice Burroughs's "Slaves of the Fish Men" (1941)
• Marsh-wiggles from C. S. Lewis's The Silver Chair (1953)
• Swimmers from C. M. Kosemen's All Tomorrows (2006)

• The Fish Men from Buck Rogers comic strips
• The Shark Men from Flash Gordon comic strips
• Namor the Sub-Mariner, from the Marvel Universe
• Aquaman from DC Comics
• The Water People from Carl Barks's story "The Secret of Atlantis"
• Abe Sapien from the Hellboy comics
• The Trench in DC Comics.

• The Gill-man from Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)^[11]
• The Gill-man from The She-Creature (1956)^[12]
• The Gill-man from The Monster of Piedras Blancas (1958)^[12]
• The Gill-men from City Under the Sea (1965)^[13]
• The titular creatures from Humanoids from the Deep (1980)
• The mutant from Leviathan (1989)
• The aquatic aliens from The Abyss (1989)
• The Killer from Split Second (1992)
• Chocki, the shark-man from Cabin Boy (1994)
• The "Mariner" from Waterworld (1995)
• The Gungans from Star Wars (1999)
• The Amphibian Man from The Shape of Water (2017)

• The Argonians from Elder Scrolls
• Aulbath (a.k.a. Rikuo) from the video game series, Darkstalkers, by Capcom
• Kuo-toa, "evil fish-men" from the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game^[14][15]
• The Melusines from the nation of Fontaine in Genshin Impact
• The Murloc are a species of amphibious creatures which live in tribes in World of Warcraft^[16]
• Neptuna, the mermaid-like boss in Croc: Legend of the Gobbos
• The Rokea from the roleplaying game Werewolf: the Apocalypse
• The sahuagin from the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game^[17]
• The Salarians, a race in the Mass Effect series
• The tritons from the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game^[15][18]
• Zoras from The Legend of Zelda

• The Aquaphibians from the Stingray TV series
• The race of Cabira (one of Chilled's henchmen) is a race of fish-like humanoids from Dragon Ball
• The Fish People from the radio broadcast Alexei Sayle and the Fish People
• The Fishmen are a race of fish-like humans from the anime One Piece. They are modeled after different aquatic lifeforms. The Fishmen can breed with Giants to create Wotans.
• Gill (aka Gil Moss) from "Kim Possible"
• Goo from Gumby
• Hippocampus from Krapopolis is a piscine humanoid. The episode "Prince Hippo" revealed that he is part of a race of Atlantean fish-men with his mother being the unnamed Queen of Atlantis.
• The Hynerians from Farscape
• Some characters in Nagi-Asu: A Lull in the Sea are humans having the ability to breathe underwater (called Ena)
• The Kanassans are a race of fish-like humanoids from the planet Manassas. They are said to possess psychic abilities, including being able to read minds and see into the future. They featured in the special Dragon Ball Z: Bardock - The Father of Goku
• Mer-Man from the Masters of the Universe franchise
• Molly, Gil, Goby, Deema, Oona and Nonny from Bubble Guppies
• Rayza from A.T.O.M.
• Sil and the Sea Devils from Doctor Who
• In the Dragon Ball Z series, the alien race of Sūi' (one of Frieza's foot soldiers) is a race of humanoid fish-like aliens who worked in the Galactic Frieza Army
• The TigerSharks from The Comic Strip segment of the same name

Humanoids with the characteristics amphibians

• The Loveland frog

• Mr. Toad from The Wind in the Willows (1908)
• The Frogman from L. Frank Baum's The Lost Princess of Oz (1917)
• The Deep Ones from H. P. Lovecraft's The Shadow Over Innsmouth (1936)^[9][b]
• The Newts from Karel Čapek's War with the Newts (1936)^[19]

• Frog-Man and the Ani-Men version of Frog-Man from Marvel Comics
• The Frog Monsters from the Hellboy comics^[20]
• Pepe the Frog, a comic character and Internet meme

• The frog people from The Mysterious Island (1929)^[21]

• The Battletoads from the video game series of the same name
• Bullywug from the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game^[22][23]

• The characters of Amphibia, a world of anthropomorphic frogs and other amphibians.
• Bullfrog from the adult animated show Captain Laserhawk: A Blood Dragon Remix
• Crazy Frog
• Kermit the Frog and Robin the Frog from The Muppets
• Michigan J. Frog, star of the Looney Tunes short One Froggy Evening and onetime mascot of The WB
• Queen Oona from Disenchantment belongs to a race of amphibious humanoids called Salamanders.

Water-dwelling humanoids with the characteristics of species other than amphibians or fish, characteristics of unclear origin, or human-like appearance

• The Amabie from Japanese folklore^[5][a]
• Kappa from Japanese folklore

• Selkies, from Irish folklore
• Undines in the writings of Paracelsus

• Cecaelia – Half-human, half-octopus, the term was coined by fans in the late 2000s to describe characters such as Ursula from The Little Mermaid (1989).^[2]: 37

• The Naga are a species of aquatic humanoids under the command and leadership of Queen Azshara in World of Warcraft

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