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Monster may also be Native, but name was given from Native language by local whites & not the original name, if so. Sea goat – Half goat, half fish; Selkie – Shapeshifting seal people; Water bull – Nocturnal amphibious bull; Water Horse – General name for mythical water dwelling horses of many cultures
Water god in an ancient Roman mosaic. Zeugma Mosaic Museum, Gaziantep, Turkey. A water deity is a deity in mythology associated with water or various bodies of water.Water deities are common in mythology and were usually more important among civilizations in which the sea or ocean, or a great river was more important.
The binomial name often reflects limited knowledge or hearsay about a species at the time it was named. For instance Pan troglodytes, the chimpanzee, and Troglodytes troglodytes, the wren, are not necessarily cave-dwellers. Sometimes a genus name or specific descriptor is simply the Latin or Greek name for the animal (e.g. Canis is Latin for ...
Marina — Latin name meaning “from the sea” Rosemary — Derived from the Latin terms “ros” meaning “dew” and “marinus” meaning “of the sea” 150 Ocean Names For Baby Boys And ...
The Gill-man from Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) [11] The Gill-man from The She-Creature (1956) [12] The Gill-man from The Monster of Piedras Blancas (1958) [12] The Gill-men from City Under the Sea (1965) [13] The titular creatures from Humanoids from the Deep (1980) The mutant from Leviathan (1989) The aquatic aliens from The Abyss (1989)
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Common names of fish can refer to a single species; to an entire group of species, such as a genus or family; or to multiple unrelated species or groups. Ambiguous common names are accompanied by their possible meanings. Scientific names for individual species and higher taxa are included in parentheses.
a fictional creature native to the northern regions of North America. Ikaroa: Māori Mythology: A long fish said to have given birth to all the stars in the Milky Way or to be the Mother Goddess of all the stars. Jasconius: An enormous fish in the story of Saint Brendan: Leviathan: A biblical sea creature from Talmud. Namazu: Catfish: Japanese ...