Troglodyte

Troglodyte may refer to:

• Troglodytae or Troglodyti, an ancient group of people from the African Red Sea coast
• Troglodites, a fictional tribe described in Montesquieu's Persian Letters, supposedly descending from the ancient Troglodytae
• Homo troglodytes, an invalid taxon coined by Carl Linnaeus to refer to a legendary creature
• Troglodyte (Dungeons & Dragons), a race of humanoid monsters in the game Dungeons & Dragons
• Troglodyte, a 2009 film also known as Sea Beast
• "Troglodyte (Cave Man)", a funk song by the Jimmy Castor Bunch on their 1972 album It's Just Begun
• Caveman, a stock character based upon widespread concepts of the way in which early prehistoric humans may have looked and behaved
• Morlocks, a fictional species created by H. G. Wells for his 1895 novel, The Time Machine. They dwell underground in the English countryside of 802,701 AD in a troglodyte civilization

The form Troglodytes may also refer to:

• Troglodytes (wren), a genus of small bird
• The common chimpanzee, Pan troglodytes
• The Troglodytes, a British band who became known as The Troggs
• Troglodytes (book), a 2010 book by Ed Lynskey
• Max Stones' lavamen workers who mine gold, in a segment from Sealab 2021

See also

• Trog (disambiguation)
• Troglobite, a cave animal
• Troglodistes, a vegetarian sub-group of French rebels in the movie Delicatessen by Director Jean-Pierre Jeunet