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The bishop-fish, a piscine humanoid reported in Poland in the 16th century. Aquatic humanoids appear in legend and fiction. [1] " 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."
Lampago mythical heraldic beast in the form of a "man-tiger or man-lion" Leo – Lion of Cithaeron ; Nemean lion ; Lion of Al-lāt (Religion in pre-Islamic Arabia) – lion icon of Al-Lat; Manticore; Manussiha – statue with a human head and two lion hindquarters; Merlion (Singaporean) – a fish with a lion's head; Narasimha
Illustration of L. piscatorius from vol. 5 of Marcus Elieser Bloch's Histoire naturelle des poissons (1796). Lophius piscatorius was first formally described by Carl Linnaeus in the 10th edition of Systema Naturae given as "in Oceano Europæo", meaning the Northeastern Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean and Black Seas with localities mentioned including Bordeaux, Marseille and Montpellier in France ...
Lophius was first proposed as a genus by Carl Linnaeus when he described Lophius piscatorius in the 10th edition of Systema Naturae given as "in Oceano Europæo", meaning the Northeastern Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean and Black Seas with localities mentioned including Bordeaux, Marseille and Montpellier in France; Genoa, Rome, Naples and Venice in Italy; Lesbos in Greece; and Syria.
Name Type Publisher First Appearance Notes Mr. Fish: Piscine humanoid: Marvel Comics: Luke Cage, Powerman #29 (April, 1975) A supervillain in the Marvel Comics Universe who is an enemy of Luke Cage.
In 2019, Wade would go on to the Animal Planet documentary series Dark Waters, which explored unexplained sightings of mythical beasts across the world. [ 7 ] [ 11 ] In 2020, he began a new TV series, Mysteries of the Deep , where he explores underwater mysteries, ranging from the Loch Ness Monster to the Bermuda Triangle .
Thaumatichthyidae, the wolftrap anglers, is a small family of marine ray-finned fishes, also called the wolftrap seadevils, classified within the suborder Ceratioidei, the deep-sea anglerfishes. They have distinctive upper jaws with movable premaxillaries that can be lowered to form a cage-like trap around the much shorter lower jaw .
A picture of a child with a fish expresses the wishes of having an "abundance of high-ranking sons". [3]: 124 Due to their association with wealth, fishes are eaten on Chinese New Year as they expresses the wishes of being affluent year by year [3]: 124 or "bring abundance of good wishes throughout the year".