List of piscine and amphibian humanoids
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Piscine and amphibian humanoids (people with the characteristics of fish or amphibians) appear in folklore and fiction.
Folklore
Myth
- Mami Wata from the mythology of the Southern Africa
- 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
- Nommo fish-like amphibian spirits in Dogon mythology.
- Oannes from Babylonian mythology
- Pincoys and La Sirena chilota, princess of the sea from Chilote mythology
- Rusalki from Slavic mythology
- Siyokoy in Philippine mythology
- Triton, the son of Poseidon
- Vodyanoy from Slavic mythology
- Yacuruna from the indigenous people of the Amazon
Legend
- The Amabie from Japanese folklore
- The ceasg in Scottish folklore
- Finfolk from the folklore of Orkney
- Melusine in European folklore
- The Neck from Scandinavian folklore
- The Ningyo from Japanese folklore
- Merrows from Irish folklore
- The Umibōzu from Japanese folklore
- Sirens, while initially described as birdlike, were associated with mermaids in later folklore
Hoaxes
- Fiji mermaids, taxidermic hoaxes exhibited by P. T. Barnum and others
Fiction
- Abe Sapien and the "frog monsters" from the Hellboy comics
- The Amphibian Man, also referred to as the "Asset", in the 2017 American fantasy drama film The Shape of Water
- The Argonians from Elder Scrolls
- Aulbath (a.k.a. Rikuo) from the video game series, Darkstalkers, by Capcom
- The Aquaphibians from the Stingray TV series
- The Battletoads, from the videogame of the same name
- Molly, Gil, Goby, Deema, Oona and Nonny from Bubble Guppies
- Bullywug from the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game setting
- The race of Cabira (one of Chilled's henchmen) is a race of fish-like humanoids
- Crazy Frog
- The Deep Ones from H. P. Lovecraft's The Shadow Over Innsmouth
- The Fishmen are a race of fish-like humans from the anime One Piece.
- The Fish People from the radio broadcast Alexei Sayle and the Fish People
- Frog-Man and the Ani-Men version of Frog-Man from Marvel Comics
- The Frogman, a character from the Oz novel series
- The Gill-man from Creature from the Black Lagoon
- Goo from Gumby
- Grendel and Grendel's mother from Beowulf
- Gungans from Star Wars
- The harbor master, from Robert W. Chambers's 1904 short story "The Harbor-Master"
- The titular creatures from Humanoids from the Deep
- The Hynerians from Farscape
- Ichthyander from Amphibian Man by Alexander Belyayev
- 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
- Kermit the Frog and Robin the Frog from The Muppets
- The 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
- Michigan J. Frog, star of the Looney Tunes short One Froggy Evening and onetime mascot of The WB
- The Murloc are a species of amphibious creatures which live in tribes in World of Warcraft
- The Naga are a species of aquatic humanoids under the command and leadership of Queen Azshara in World of Warcraft
- Namor the Sub-Mariner from the Marvel Universe
- Neptuna, the mermaid-like boss in Croc: Legend of the Gobbos
- The Newts in War with the Newts by Karel Čapek
- Pepe the Frog, a comic character and Internet meme
- The Rokea from the roleplaying game Werewolf: the Apocalypse
- The Sahuagin from the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game setting
- The Salarians, a race in the Mass Effect series
- The Sea Devils from Doctor Who
- Sil, 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 in the cartoon series of the same name
- Mr. Toad from The Wind in the Willows
- Zoras from The Legend of Zelda
- Some characters in Nagi-Asu:_A_Lull_in_the_Sea are humans having the ability to breathe underwater (called Ena)