List of aquatic humanoids


Aquatic humanoids appear in legend and fiction. "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."

Myth

"Ancient sea deities" have been regarded as the "earliest version of a human-fish hybrid". 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.

Piscine humanoids

Water-dwelling humanoids in legend and fiction have frequently been depicted with characteristics of fish.

Legend

Literature

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.

Legend

Literature

Some water-dwelling humanoids in fiction and legend have been assigned characteristics of species other than amphibians or fish, or have been presented as "fully human formed aquatic humanoids".

Legend

Literature




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