List of aquatic humanoids

{{Short description|none}} [[File:Merman.jpg|thumb|The bishop-fish, a piscine humanoid reported in Poland in the 16th century]] '''Aquatic humanoids''' appear in legend and fiction.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Encyclopedia of giants and humanoids in myth, legend and folklore |last=Bane |first=Theresa |isbn=9781476663517 |oclc=918874339 |date = 2016-05-04 |publisher=McFarland}}</ref> "Water-dwelling people with fully human, fish-tailed or other compound physiques feature in the mythologies and folklore of maritime, lacustrine and riverine societies across the planet."<ref name=Hayward>{{cite book |last=Hayward |first=Philip |date=2017 |title=Making a Splash: Mermaids (and Mermen) in 20th and 21st Century Audiovisual Media |publisher=John Libbey Publishing |isbn=9780861969258}}</ref>{{rp|6}}

==Myth== {{main|Water deity|Water spirit}} {{see also|Merman|Mermaid|Merfolk}} "Ancient sea deities" have been regarded as the "earliest version of a human-fish hybrid".<ref name=Strozier>{{cite book |last=Strozier |first=Scott |date=2022 |title=Probable, Possible, Plausible - Explanatory Guide to Monsters and Myth |publisher=Dorrance Publishing |page=161 |isbn=9781636613468}}</ref> 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.<ref name=Hayward/>{{rp|6}}<ref name=Strozier/><ref>{{cite book |last=Maxwell |first=Melissa |date=2024 |title=The Little Encyclopedia of Mermaids |publisher=Running Press |chapter=Introduction |isbn=9780762488377}}</ref>

==Piscine humanoids== Water-dwelling humanoids in legend and fiction have frequently been depicted with characteristics of fish.<ref name=Penguin>{{cite book |editor1-last=Bacchilega |editor1-first=Cristina |editor2-last=Brown |editor2-first=Marie Alohalani |date=2019 |title=The Penguin Book of Mermaids |publisher=Penguin Books |page=xii |isbn=9780143133728 |quote=Descriptions of the merbeing's fishy lower half tend to be generic, but there are a few notable exceptions. [...] human mixed with freshwater dolphin (or porpoise), dugong, or manatee bodies are found in the Amazon region. Other merbeings and water spritis are partly reptilian}}</ref>

===Legend=== *The amabie from Japanese folklore<ref name=Davisson>{{cite book |last=Davisson |first=Zach |date=2024 |title=Ultimate Guide to Japanese Yokai|publisher=Tuttle Publishing |page=169 |isbn=9781462924776 |quote=a chimeric creature with a bird's beak, fish scales, long hair, and three finned feet}}</ref>{{efn|name=PM|These creatures or characters have been described with piscine and/or other characteristics.}} *The ceasg in Scottish folklore has the upper body of a beautiful woman merging with the tail of a grilse (a young salmon)<ref>{{Cite book |last=Carmichael |first=Alexander |authorlink=Alexander Carmichael |title=Carmina Gadelica, Vol. I & II: Hymns and Incantations |publisher=Forgotten Books |page=387 |isbn=1-60506-172-7}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=MacKenzie |first=Donald A. |authorlink=Donald Alexander MacKenzie |title=Scottish Folk-Lore and Folk Life — Studies in Race, Culture and Tradition |publisher=Blackie & Son |date=1931 |pages=251–2 |isbn=9781444656367}}</ref> *Finfolk from the folklore of Orkney *Melusine in European folklore{{efn|name=PM}} *Merrows from Irish folklore *The Ningyo from Japanese folklore *Sirens were initially described as bird-like, but have become associated with mermaids in later folklore. *The Umibōzu from Japanese folklore{{efn|name=PM}}

===Hoax=== * Fiji mermaid, a taxidermic hoax perpetuated by P. T. Barnum.

===Fiction=== ====Literature==== * Caliban from William Shakespeare's play ''The Tempest''.<ref name=Vaughan>{{cite book |last1=Vaughan |first1=Alden T. |last2=Vaughan |first2=Virginia Mason |date=1991 |title=Shakespeare's Caliban: A Cultural History |publisher=Cambridge University Press |pages=13–14 |isbn=0-521-40305-7 |quote=two American critics have argued that "'Come, thou tortoise' tended to give a vague approximation of the shape of the deformity." More often, Caliban has been portrayed with fish rather than turtle attributes - scales, fins, and shiny skin - which reflect the critic's or artist's or actor's fixation on offhand epithets rather than the overwhelming evidence of Caliban's essentially human form.}}</ref>{{efn|name=PM}} * The Little Mermaid, from Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales (1837) * The harbor master from Robert W. Chambers's story "The Harbor-Master" (1899){{sfn|Joshi|1999|p=163}}<ref>{{cite book |last=Chambers |first=Robert W. |author-link=Robert W. Chambers |date=1904 |title=In Search of the Unknown |url=https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/18668/pg18668-images.html |publisher=Harper & Brothers |access-date=2025-01-15 |quote=a man with round, fixed, fishy eyes, and soft, slaty skin. But the horror of the thing were the two gills that swelled and relaxed spasmodically, emitting a rasping, purring sound—two gasping, blood-red gills}}</ref> * The fish man from Irvin S. Cobb's story "Fishhead" (1913){{sfn|Joshi|1999|p=163}} * Ichthyander from Alexander Belyayev's ''Amphibian Man'' (1928){{sfn |Bleiler |1990 |pp=46-47}} * The Deep Ones from H. P. Lovecraft's ''The Shadow Over Innsmouth'' (1936){{sfn|Joshi|1999|p=163}}{{efn|name=PA|These creatures have been described with fish-like and/or frog-like characteristics.}}<ref name=DO>{{cite book |last=Lovecraft |first=H. P. |author-link=H. P. Lovecraft |date=January 1942 |title=The Shadow Over Innsmouth |url=https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73181/pg73181-images.html |series=Weird Tales |access-date=2025-01-16 |quote=their predominant color was a grayish-green, though they had white bellies. They were mostly shiny and slippery, but the ridges of their backs were scaly. Their forms vaguely suggested the anthropoid, while their heads were the heads of fish, with prodigious bulging eyes that never closed. At the sides of their necks were palpitating gills, and their long paws were webbed. They hopped irregularly, sometimes on two legs and sometimes on four. [...] They were the blasphemous fish-frogs of the nameless design}}</ref><ref name=Glitos-Hall>{{cite journal |last1=Glitsos |first1=Laura |author1-link=Laura Glitsos |last2=Hall |first2=James |date=2019 |title=The Pepe the Frog meme: an examination of social, political, and cultural implications through the tradition of the Darwinian Absurd |journal=Journal for Cultural Research |volume=23 |issue=4 |pages=381–395 |doi=10.1080/14797585.2019.1713443}}</ref> * The Myposans from Edgar Rice Burroughs's "Slaves of the Fish Men" (1941)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Brady |first1=Clark A. |title=The Burroughs Cyclopædia |date=2024 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-1-4766-0592-0 |page=229 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RrcuEQAAQBAJ&pg=PA229 |language=en |quote=The fish-men of Amtor, who inhabit the city-state of Mypos. They have webbed hands and feet, gills on their necks, protruding lips, and bug eyes. They have heavy black beards and hair and their bodies are absolutely perfect, with well-developed muscles and practically no fat.}}</ref> * Swimmers from C. M. Kosemen's ''All Tomorrows'' (2006)<ref name=Kosemen>{{cite book |last=Kosemen |first=C. M. |author-link=C. M. Kosemen |date=2008 |title=All Tomorrows |quote=Swimmers [...] these post-human water babies came in every shape and size imaginable. There were limbless, ribbon like varieties of eel-people, huge, whale like behemoths, decorative people who swam by squirting water out of their hypertrophied mouths and horrifying multitudes of brainless wallowers}}</ref>{{efn|name=PM}}

====Comics==== * The Fish-Men are a race of fish-like humans from the Japanese series ''One Piece''. They are modeled after different aquatic lifeforms. The Fish-Men can breed with humans to create half-Fish-Men, half-humans, or Giants to create Wotans. * The Fish Men from Buck Rogers comic strips * The Shark Men from Flash Gordon comic strips * The Water People from Carl Barks's story "The Secret of Atlantis" * Nina Mazursky from DC Comics<ref>{{Cite web |last=Murphy |first=Chris |date=June 9, 2011 |title=GET TO THE FLASHPOINT, WEEK 2: Frankenstein, Aquaman, Deathstroke, Citizen Cold |url=https://comicsalliance.com/flashpoint-week-2-aquaman-deathstroke-cold-frankenstein/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131114164223/https://comicsalliance.com/flashpoint-week-2-aquaman-deathstroke-cold-frankenstein/ |archive-date=November 14, 2013 |access-date=August 20, 2025 |website=ComicsAlliance |language=en |quote=Also chucked into liquid-filled glass science tubes and forgotten are his fellow Project M commandoes, vampire Vincent Velcoro, wolfman Warren Griffith, and she-creature from the black lagoon Nina Mazursky. Stored in a basement and forgotten as one might misplace a cardboard box of old GI Joes, they break free when Frank finally regains consciousness in 2011.}}</ref> * Abe Sapien from the ''Hellboy'' comics<ref>{{cite journal |last=Smith |first=Paul Julian |date=2007 |title=Pan's Labyrinth (El laberinto del fauno) |journal=Film Quarterly |volume=60 |issue=4 |pages=4–9 |doi=10.1525/fq.2007.60.4.4 |quote=the piscine Abe Sapien of ''Hellboy''}}</ref> * Sobunar of the Depths from Marvel Comics<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hearn |first=Kayleigh |date=July 18, 2025 |title=Marvel's 15 Strongest Omega-Level Mutants, Ranked |url=https://www.looper.com/1910143/marvel-strongest-omega-level-mutants-ranked/ |access-date=August 20, 2025 |website=Looper |language=en-US |quote=The aquatic, axolotl-headed mutant Sobunar of the Depths is a living biome. Debuting in "Planet-Size X-Men" #1, Sobunar is descended from a line of mutants (all also named Sobunar) who originate in the ancient mutant homeland, Okkara.}}</ref> * The Trench in DC Comics<ref>{{cite book |last=Poll |first=Ryan |date=2022 |title=Aquaman and the War Against Oceans: Comics Activism and Allegory in the Anthropocene |publisher=University of Nebraska Press |page=42 |isbn=9781496225856 |quote=This humanoid figure resembles monsters that circulate in popular culture. In conjunction with its blackness, its open mouth reveals elongated, sharp teeth, resembling a piranha's mouth.}}</ref>

====Films==== * The sea people from ''The Mysterious Island'' (1929){{sfn|Debus|2016|p=230. "In a 1929 feature film, very loosely adapted from Jules Verne's 1875 novel ''The Mysterious Island'' [...] and undersea realm is discovered inhabitated by peculiar, tool-using undersea people [...] the fishy, axe-wielding creatures".}}<ref name=GBS>{{cite book |last1=Golden |first1=Christopher |last2=Bisette |first2=Stephen R. |last3=Sniegoski |first3=Thomas E. |date=2000 |title=The Monster Book |publisher=Simon & Schuster |page=255 |isbn= 0-671-04259-9 |quote=Other bizarre amphibious mermen (played by dwarfs in froglike suits) were discovered in the ocean's depths in MGM's lavish adaptdation of Jules Verne's ''The Mysterious Island'' (1929)}}</ref><ref name=Johnson>{{cite book |last=Johnson |first=John |date=1996 |title=Cheap Tricks and Class Acts |publisher=McFarland & Company |page=261 |isbn=9780786400935 |quote=the 1919 version of ''Mysterious Island'' in which he [Angelo Rossitto] played one of the many underwater frog-like creatures}}</ref><ref name=Schoell>{{cite book |last=Schoell |first=William |date=2008 |title=Creature Features - Nature Turned Nasty in the Movies |publisher=McFarland & Company |chapter=Humongous |isbn=978-1-4766-1072-6 |quote=The sea people resemble tiny mole men with big eyes, bald heads, and snow-white skin}}</ref>{{efn|name=PA}} * The Gill-man from ''Creature from the Black Lagoon'' (1954){{sfn|Debus|2016|pp=230-231. "the Gill Man ("half man, half fish")"}} * The Gill-man from ''The She-Creature'' (1956){{sfn|Debus|2016|p=237}} * The Gill-man from ''The Monster of Piedras Blancas'' (1958){{sfn|Debus|2016|p=237}} * The Gill-men from ''City Under the Sea'' (1965)<ref>{{cite book |last=Mitchell |first=Charles P. |title=The complete H.P. Lovecraft filmography |date=2001 |publisher=Greenwood Press |location=Westport, Conn. |isbn=9780313316418 |page=19}}</ref> * The titular creatures from ''Humanoids from the Deep'' (1980)<ref>{{cite web |title=Das Grauen aus der Tiefe |url=https://www.moviepilot.de/movies/das-grauen-aus-der-tiefe-2 |website=Moviepilot |trans-title=Humanoids from the Deep |access-date=2025-01-21 |quote=In experiments scientists have created creatures which are half human and half fish.}}</ref> * The mutant from ''Leviathan'' (1989) * Chocki, the shark-man from ''Cabin Boy'' (1994) * The Amphibian Man from ''The Shape of Water'' (2017)<ref name=Farley>{{cite web |last=Farley |first=Rebecca |date=2017-12-01 |title=Why People Are So Obsessed With The Fish Man From ''The Shape Of Water'' |url=https://www.refinery29.com/en-gb/2017/12/187357/shape-of-water-the-asset-sex-symbol |website=Refinery29 |access-date=2025-02-03}}</ref><ref name=Adij>{{cite journal |last=Adij |first=Alberta Natasia |date=2019 |title=Falling for the Amphibian Man: Fantasy, Otherness, and Auteurism in del Toro's ''The Shape of Water'' |url=http://iafor.org/archives/journals/iafor-journal-of-media-communication-and-film/10.22492.ijmcf.6.1.03.pdf |journal=IAFOR Journal of Media, Communication & Film |volume=6 |issue=1 |access-date=2025-02-03 |quote=the half-man, half-lizard amphibian in ''The Shape of Water''}}</ref>{{efn|name=PM}}

====Games==== * Aulbath (a.k.a. Rikuo), a merman character from the video game series ''Darkstalkers'', by Capcom<ref>{{cite magazine |date=April 1996 |title=The NIGHT WARRIORS have once again awakened... It is time to unleash your real power! |url=https://archive.org/details/maximum-the-video-game-magazine-issue-5-april-1996-uk/page/84/mode/2up?q=aulbath+merman |access-date=17 February 2025 |magazine=Maximum: The Video Game Magazine |page=85 |issue=5}}</ref> * Kuo-toa, "evil fish-men" from the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' role-playing game<ref>{{cite book |last=Schick |first=Lawrence |title=Heroic Worlds: A History and Guide to Role-Playing Games |publisher=Prometheus Books |year=1991 |page=89 |isbn=0-87975-653-5}}</ref><ref name=DiSalvo>{{cite web |date=2020-10-07 |url=https://www.cbr.com/dungeons-dragons-monsters-creatures-beings-want-playable-race-mind-flayer-vampire/ |title=10 Dungeons & Dragons Monsters We Want As Playable Races |last=DiSalvo |first=Paul |website=CBR.com |access-date=2024-11-27}}</ref> * The Murloc are a species of amphibious creatures which live in tribes in ''World of Warcraft''<ref name="murlocs">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GtYP_ZtrhZgC | title=The Warcraft Civilization: Social Science in a Virtual World | publisher=MIT Press | date=2012 |last=Bainbridge |first=William Sims | page=96| isbn=978-0-262-28837-8 |quote=Murlocs are rather aggressive amphibious humanoids}}</ref><ref name=Newman>{{cite web |last=Newman |first=Heather |date=2015-11-16 |title=World of Warcraft's Patch 6.2.3 and anniversary have meme-tastic Thunderfury and new mounts (update) |url=https://venturebeat.com/games/world-of-warcrafts-patch-6-2-3-has-meme-tastic-thunderfury-and-a-wand-that-turns-players-in-murlocs/ |website=VentureBeat |access-date=2025-02-18 |quote=frog-fish-what-the-hell-is-that-thing Murlocs}}</ref>{{efn|name=PA}} * Neptuna, the mermaid-like boss in ''Croc: Legend of the Gobbos'' * The Rokea, weresharks from the roleplaying game ''Werewolf: The Apocalypse''<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Moumat |first=Raphaël |date=June 2001 |issue=31 |title=Rokea |url=https://archive.org/details/backstab-031/page/n83/mode/2up?q=rokea+werewolf |magazine=Backstab |lang=fr |access-date=2025-02-18 |page=85}}</ref> * The sahuagin from the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' role-playing game<ref>{{cite web |date=2020-10-23 |url=https://www.cbr.com/dungeons-dragons-fish-people-sahuagin-facts-trivia/ |title=Dungeons & Dragons: 10 Facts You Need To Know About The Fish People, Sahuagin |last=Miller |first=Sage Thomas |website=CBR.com |access-date=2024-11-27}}</ref> * The tritons from the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' role-playing game<ref name=DiSalvo/><ref name=ZF>{{Cite web|last=Furniss|first=Zack|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201108094600/http://www.destructoid.com/volo-s-guide-to-monsters-is-the-new-awesome-monster-manual-for-dungeons-dragons-399655.phtml|archive-date=2020-11-08|url=https://www.destructoid.com/volo-s-guide-to-monsters-is-the-new-awesome-monster-manual-for-dungeons-dragons-399655.phtml|title=Volo's Guide to Monsters is the new, awesome Monster Manual for Dungeons & Dragons|website=Destructoid|date=November 16, 2016|access-date=2024-11-25}}</ref> * Zoras from ''The Legend of Zelda''<ref>{{Cite web |last=Pursey |first=Jack |date=2020-11-05 |title=The Legend Of Zelda: 10 Most Interesting Things About The Zora |url=https://gamerant.com/legend-of-zelda-zora-most-interesting-facts/ |access-date=2025-02-18 |website=Game Rant |archive-date=2022-05-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220502193121/https://gamerant.com/legend-of-zelda-zora-most-interesting-facts/ |url-status=live |quote=Zora [...] fish-like beings [...] An aquatic race [...] Sea Zora [...] have a more human-like appearance. [...] River Zora, on the other hand, are more fish-like in appearance.}}</ref>

====Television==== * The Aquaphibians from the ''Stingray'' TV series<ref>{{cite book |last=Burman |first=Rob |date=2015 |title=Gerry Anderson Collectables |publisher=Amberley Publishing |chapter=''Stingray'' (1964/65) |isbn=9781445648736 |quote=Aquaphibians, a nation of warrior-like mer-men}}</ref> * 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'' * Gill (aka Gil Moss) from "Kim Possible"<ref>{{cite web |last=Kurland |first=Daniel |date=2018-02-06 |title=18 Most Despicable Things Kim Possible Has Ever Done |url=https://screenrant.com/kim-possible-most-despicable-bad-things-done/ |website=Screen Rant |access-date=2025-02-19 |quote=Gill [...] mutated into a ''Creature From the Black Lagoon''-like monster.}}</ref> * Goo, a mermaid character from ''Gumby''<ref>{{cite web |last=London |first=Rob |date=2024-06-06 |title=This Iconic '50s Character Is Getting a New Series |url=https://collider.com/gumby-kids-first-image/ |website=Collider |access-date=2025-02-20}}</ref> * Hippocampus from ''Krapopolis'' is a piscine humanoid.<ref>{{cite web |last=Sepinwall |first=Alan |date=2023-09-18 |title=Elon Musk Will Find 'Krapopolis' Funny. Everybody Else? Not So Much. |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-reviews/krapopolis-review-dan-harmon-ancient-greece-animated-comedy-1234823363/ |website=Rolling Stone |access-date=2025-02-20 |quote=Hippocampus (Duncan Trussell) is a fish-man monster}}</ref> 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 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''<ref>{{cite journal |last=Atoofi |first=Saeid |date=2015 |title=Context from a social semiotic perspective: a discourse analytical study of the children TV show, ''Bubble Guppies'' |journal=Social Semiotics |volume=25 |issue=5 |pages=558–577 |doi=10.1080/10350330.2015.1041790 |quote=a children animations series, ''Bubble Guppies'', where human-like mermaids}}</ref> * Rayza from ''A.T.O.M.'' * Sil and his race, the Mentors, from ''Doctor Who''<ref name=Muir>{{cite book |last=Muir |first=John Kenneth |date=2015 |title=A Critical History of Doctor Who on Television |publisher=McFarland & Company |page=50 |isbn=9781476604541 |quote=Sil, a being of a race called the Mentors. He was a short, physically repulsive creature who seemed like an evolved fish or sea serpent.}}</ref><ref name=Donaghy-Richards>{{cite book |last1=Donaghy |first1=Craig |last2=Richards |first2=Justin |date=2022 |title=Doctor Who: A Short History of Everyone |publisher=Penguin Random House |page=290 |isbn=978-1-405-95600-0 |quote=SIL [...] GIANT SLUG THING [...] Needs constant moisturing in a dry climate.}}</ref><ref name=Thompson>{{cite book |last=Thompson |first=Dave |date=2013 |title=Doctor Who FAQ: All That's Left to Know About the Most Famous Time Lord in the Universe |publisher=Applause Theatre & Cinema Books |chapter=The Thoros-Betans |isbn=978-1-4803-4295-8 |quote=Sil is [...] a slug, a tiny, wriggly wormlike man-thing [...] this repugnant little gastropod}}</ref>{{efn|name=PM}} * 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<ref name=Syfy>{{cite web |date=2019-03-07 |title=Everything you didn't know about TigerSharks |url=https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/everything-you-didnt-know-about-tigersharks |website=Syfy |access-date=2025-02-16 |quote=the TigerSharks' transformation into humanoid aquatics}}</ref><ref name=LaMarche>{{cite web |last=LaMarche |first=Lee |date=2024-03-23 |title=Why TigerSharks Was Never as Successful as Thundercats or Silverhawks |url=https://movieweb.com/why-tigersharks-was-never-as-successful-as-thundercats-or-silverhawks/ |website=MovieWeb |access-date=2025-02-26 |quote=a group of human-like aliens [...] morph into sea-going versions of themselves. Each one had its own new, cool form based on a specific sea creature. [...] Mako [...] became partly shark. Lorca [...] part-orca. Dolph [...] part dolphin. Octavia [...] whose head turned into an octopus. Walro [...] part walrus. [...] Angel and Bronc [...] into hybrid angelfish and seahorse}}</ref>{{efn|name=PM}}

==Amphibian humanoids== Humanoid-amphibian characters have "been noted across ancient mythologies and, [...] in medieval cryptozoology", as well as fiction of the Western canon and popular culture. The combination invokes notions of humans' animalistic past, and the tension between the two attributes is used to "conceive monstrous and horrifying" and absurd creatures.<ref name=Glitos-Hall/>

===Legend=== * The Loveland frog

===Fiction=== ====Literature==== * Mr. Toad from ''The Wind in the Willows'' (1908)<ref name=Glitos-Hall/> * 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){{sfn|Joshi|1999|p=163}}{{efn|name=PA}}<ref name=DO/><ref name=Glitos-Hall/> * The Newts from Karel Čapek's ''War with the Newts'' (1936){{sfn|Debus|2016|p=235}} * Marshwiggles from C. S. Lewis's ''The Silver Chair'' (1953)<ref>{{cite book |last=Martha C. |first=Sammons |date=1979 |title=a guide through Narnia |publisher=Harold Shaw Publishers |page=151 |isbn=0-87788-325-4 |quote=frog-like creatures}}</ref>

====Comics==== * Amphibius from Marvel Comics * Frog-Man and the Ani-Men version of Frog-Man from Marvel Comics * The Frog Monsters from the ''Hellboy'' comics<ref>{{cite web |last=Rowell |first=Dawlin |date=2019-10-30 |title=The 10 Scariest Monsters In Hellboy Comics, Ranked |url=https://www.cbr.com/hellboy-comics-monsters-scary-ranked/ |website=CBR.com |access-date=2025-01-08 |quote=the Frog Monsters are considered the demonic ideal evolution of man, characterized as humanoid creatures with frog-like qualities}}</ref> * Pepe the Frog, a comic character and Internet meme<ref name=Glitos-Hall/>

====Games==== * The Battletoads from the video game series of the same name * Bullywug from the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' role-playing game<ref>{{cite web |date=2023-06-25 |url=https://www.thegamer.com/dungeons-dragons-8-best-monsters-for-a-swamp/ |title=Dungeons & Dragons: 8 Best Monsters For A Swamp |last=Stomberg |first=Chris |website=The Gamer |access-date=2024-11-28 |quote=Bullywugs are brutish frog-men}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=2021-11-25 |url=https://screenrant.com/dungeons-dragons-dnd-acquatic-race-build-ideas/ |title=Unique D&D Build Ideas For Aquatic Races |last=Friend |first=Devin Ellis |website=Screen Rant |access-date=2024-11-28 |quote=A stalwart humanoid bullfrog}}</ref> * The Murloc are a species of amphibious creatures from ''World of Warcraft''<ref name="murlocs"/><ref name=Newman/>{{efn|name=PA}} * The Salarians, a race in the ''Mass Effect'' series<ref>{{cite web |last=DelGreco |first=Marina |date=2020-11-28 |title=Mass Effect's Intelligent Salarian Alien Race Offer More Than Meets the Eye |url=https://gamerant.com/mass-effect-trilogy-aliens-salarians-good/ |website=Game Rant |access-date=2025-02-18 |quote=Salarians are notably amphibian}}</ref>

====Television==== * 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 * The Hynerians from ''Farscape''<ref name=Glitos-Hall/> * The Hypnotoad from ''Futurama''<ref name=Glitos-Hall/> * Kermit the Frog<ref name=Glitos-Hall/> 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.

==Miscellaneous== Some water-dwelling humanoids in fiction and legend have been assigned characteristics of species other than amphibians or fish,<ref name=Penguin/> or have been presented as "fully human formed aquatic humanoids".<ref>{{cite journal |last=Hayward |first=Philip |date=2018 |title=Mermaids, Mercultures and the Aquapelagic Imaginary |journal=Shima |volume=12 |issue=2 |pages=12–24 |doi=10.21463/shima.12.2.03|doi-access=free }}</ref> ===Legend=== * The Amabie from Japanese folklore<ref name=Davisson/>{{efn|name=PM}} * The fuath, "malevolent humanoid water-spirits" from Scottish folklore and Irish folklore<ref>{{cite book |last1=Meurger |first1=Michel |last2=Gagnon |first2=Claude |date=1988 |title=Lake Monster Traditions - A Cross-cultural Analysis |publisher=Fortean Tomes |page=316 |isbn=9781870021005}}</ref><ref>{{citation |last=Mackenzie |first=Donald A. |title=Scottish folk-lore and folk life; studies in race, culture and tradition |page=233 |year=1935 |chapter=Fuath |chapter-url=https://hdl.handle.net/2027/inu.39000003533341 |location=London |publisher=Blackie |hdl=2027/inu.39000003533341 |author-link=Donald Alexander Mackenzie}}; Reprint: Read Books Ltd 2013 [https://books.google.com/books?id=fpd8CgAAQBAJ&pg=PT167] {{isbn|9781447482703}}</ref> * Kappa from Japanese folklore * Melusine in European folklore{{efn|name=PM}} * The Neck from Scandinavian folklore * Selkies, from Irish folklore * The Umibōzu from Japanese folklore{{efn|name=PM}} * Undines in the writings of Paracelsus

===Fiction=== ====Literature==== * Grendel and Grendel's mother from ''Beowulf'' * The underwater people from H. G. Wells's story "In the Abyss" (1896){{sfn|Debus|2016|p=231-232}}<ref>{{cite book |last=Wells |first=H. G. |author-link=H. G. Wells |date=2013 |title=The Plattner Story, and Others |url=https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/42989/pg42989-images.html#IN_THE_ABYSS |publisher=Project Gutenberg |chapter=IN THE ABYSS |access-date=2025-01-15 |quote=Its dark purple head was dimly suggestive of a chameleon[...]; the vertical pitch of its face gave it a most extraordinary resemblance to a human being. Two large and protruding eyes projected from sockets in chameleon fashion, and it had a broad reptilian mouth with horny lips beneath its little nostrils. In the position of the ears were two huge gill-covers, and out of these floated a branching tree of coralline filaments, almost like the tree-like gills that very young rays and sharks possess. [...] It was a biped; its almost globular body was poised on a tripod of two frog-like legs and a long thick tail, and its fore limbs, which grotesquely caricatured the human hand, much as a frog's do}}</ref> * Caliban from William Shakespeare's play ''The Tempest''.<ref name=Vaughan/>{{efn|name=PM}} * The seal-like Submen from Olaf Stapledon's ''Last and First Men'' (1930)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Westfahl |first1=Gary |title=The Stuff of Science Fiction: Hardware, Settings, Characters |date=27 September 2022 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-1-4766-4695-4 |page=82 |language=en}}</ref> *The Salines (Salinos) from ''Sea Princesses'' (2004) * Swimmers from C. M. Kosemen's ''All Tomorrows'' (2006)<ref name=Kosemen/>{{efn|name=PM}} thumb|Cecaelia is a half human, half octopus.

====Comics==== * Aquaman from DC Comics * The people of Atlantis, such as Namor, from the Marvel Universe * Squid-Boy from Marvel Comics

====Films==== * 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).<ref name=Hayward/>{{rp|37}} * The Killer from ''Split Second'' (1992)<ref>{{cite web |date=2020-09-26 |title=Movie Review: SPLIT SECOND (1992) |url=https://outburn.com/all-features/split-second/ |website=Outburn Online |access-date=2025-01-23 |quote=the conception of the killer is a somewhat unoriginal mixture of ''Aliens'' and ''Predator''}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Valentino |first=Alexander |date=2024-09-15 |title=10 Alien Rip Off Movies That Are Actually Pretty Good |url=https://screenrant.com/alien-rip-off-movies-pretty-good/ |website=Screen Rant |access-date=2025-01-23 |quote=the antagonist is revealed to be not a human serial murderer, but a Xenomorph like monster, albeit a far more humanoid one than Ridley Scott's}}</ref> * The "Mariner" from ''Waterworld'' (1995) * The Amphibian Man from ''The Shape of Water'' (2017)<ref name=Farley/><ref name=Adij/>{{efn|name=PM}}

====Games==== * The Argonians from ''Elder Scrolls''<ref>{{cite web |last=Petty |first=Gabriella |date=2018-10-22 |title=The Elder Scrolls Online: Murkmire gives the Argonians the homeland they deserve |url=https://www.pcgamesn.com/the-elder-scrolls-online/the-elder-scrolls-online-murkmire-review |website=PCGamesN |access-date=2025-02-04 |quote=Ah, the Argonians of Elder Scrolls. Tamriel's friendly neighbourhood swamp lizards have been an essential part of Elder Scrolls [...]. Surely there's more value in the reptilians than immunity to disease and the ability to breathe underwater?}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Lee |first1=Stephanie |last2=Madrigal |first2=Hector |last3=Graeber |first3=Brendan |date=2016-10-11 |title=Argonian |url=https://www.ign.com/wikis/the-elder-scrolls-5-skyrim/Argonian |website=IGN |access-date=2025-02-04 |quote=Argonians are a reptilian race from Black Marsh. They can breathe under water indefinitely}}</ref> * The Naga are a species of aquatic humanoids under the command and leadership of Queen Azshara in ''World of Warcraft''

====Television==== * Some characters in ''Nagi-Asu: A Lull in the Sea'' are humans having the ability to breathe underwater (called Ena)<ref>{{cite web |last=Lam |first=Claris |date=2021-09-27 |title=6 Anime That Take Place Almost Entirely Underwater |url=https://www.cbr.com/anime-set-underwater-ocean/ |website=CBR |access-date=2025-02-20 |quote=Nagi-Asu: A Lull In The Sea Followed Humans Who Lived Underwater [...] Long ago, humans lived underwater and developed a scale-like layer on their skins called Ena to do so.}}</ref> * Polvina, Tubarina, Ester and others who live underwater from ''Sea Princesses'' (2007-2010) * Sea Devils and Silurians from ''Doctor Who''<ref>{{cite web |last=Graham-Lowery |first=Nathan |date=2024-11-16 |title=Doctor Who Spinoff Set Photo Reveals First Look At Sea Devils Redesign |url=https://screenrant.com/doctor-who-war-between-land-sea-set-photo-sea-devils-redesign/ |website=Screen Rant |access-date=2025-02-25}}</ref> * Sil and his race, the Mentors, from ''Doctor Who''<ref name=Muir/><ref name=Donaghy-Richards/><ref name=Thompson/>{{efn|name=PM}} * The TigerSharks from ''The Comic Strip'' segment of the same name<ref name=Syfy/><ref name=LaMarche/>{{efn|name=PM}}

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==Citations== {{Reflist}}

==General references== *{{cite book |last=Bleiler |first=E. F. |title=Science-fiction, the early years : a full description of more than 3,000 science-fiction stories from earliest times to the appearance of the genre magazines in 1930 : with author, title, and motif indexes |date=1990 |publisher=Kent State University Press |location=Kent, Ohio |isbn=9780873384162}} *{{cite book |last=Bleiler |first=E. F. |title=Science-fiction : the Gernsback years : a complete coverage of the genre magazines ... from 1926 through 1936 |date=1998 |publisher=Kent State University Press |location=Kent, Ohio |isbn=9780873386043}} *{{cite book |last=Debus |first=Allen A. |title=Dinosaurs ever evolving : the changing face of prehistoric animals in popular culture |date=2016 |location=Jefferson, North Carolina |isbn=978-0786499519}} *{{cite book |last=Joshi |first=S. T. |title=A subtler magick : the writings and philosophy of H.P. Lovecraft |date=1999 |publisher=Wildside Press |location=Berkeley Heights, NJ |isbn=9781880448618}}

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