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* ''Franchise/OnePiece'' is full of this with a lot of the Mer-people and Fishmen (which are a different species than the Mer-people, but can interbreed). Arlong is a saw shark, Hat-chan is an octopus and Chu is an archerfish, though.

Compare PettingZooPeople, FishPeople, SnakePeople.

* In ''Anime/{{Tamagotchi}}! Yume Kira Dream'' episode 44, Yumemitchi and Kiraitchi use the Yume Kira bags to transform into mermaids and retrieve Boltotchi's gift for Nutotchi, which has been dropped in the water by accident. While in their mermaid forms, Yumemitchi and Kiraitchi's tailfins do not have visible scales.

* In ''Anime/{{Tamagotchi}}! Yume Kira Dream'' episode 44, Yuemmitchi and Kiraitchi use the Yume Kira bags to transform into mermaids and retrieve Boltotchi's gift for Nutotchi, which has been dropped in the water by accident. While in their mermaid forms, Yumemitchi and Kiraitchi's tailfins do not have visible scales.

* [[Manga/ShinryakuIkaMusume Squid Girl]] is half-human half-squid, but averts the "human upper half, fishy lower half" part of the trope. Instead, she wears a hat shaped like the top end of a squid and [[PrehensileHair her hairlocks are the tentacles]]. Oh, and ink comes out of her mouth when she sneezes or pukes.

* Merpeople in ''Manga/ACentaursLife'' naturally evolved from aquatic primates and are fully mammalian.
** Interestingly, their tail starts from about the knees down, so they still have thighs.

* ''Manga/DeadlineSummonner'' has a Scylla in Mamoru's harem. For those who don't know, a Scylla is a half-human monster with the lower half of an octopus. [[CuteMonsterGirl She's rather attractive.]]
** ''Manga/TwelveBeast'', by the same mangaka, features Scylla among Eita's army.
** ''Manga/DailyLifeWithMonsterGirl'', also by the same mangaka, also has a Scylla, named Octo. There also exist shark and eel subspecies.

** ''Manga/DailyLifeWithMonsterGirl'', also by the same mangaka, also has a Scylla, named Oct. There also exist shark and eel subspecies.

* The ''StreetSharks''

* ''Franchise/MonsterHigh'' does this in the ''Great Scarrier Reef'' line. The new characters are Posea Reef, the daughter of Poseidon, who has echinoderm-like skin and a [[PlantPerson lower body of seaweed]], Kala Mer'ri, the squidlike daughter of the Kraken, and Peri and Pearl Serpentine, the conjoined daughters of the Hydra, who are half sea-snake. The main cast gets transformed into merpeople, with a MythologyGag behind them. Toralei, the tiger-like werecat, becomes part lionfish, [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Draculaura]] becomes part vampire squid, [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent Clawdeen Wolf]] becomes part wolffish, and [[ShockAndAwe Frankie Stein]] becomes part electric eel.

* The Decapodians in ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' are vaguely crustacean humanoids, with elements of crabs, lobsters, prawns, [[FishPeople fish]], [[{{Cthulhumanoid}} squid]], [[HeinzHybrid and anything else they could think of]].

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ihtX86JzmA The music video for Ricky Martin's "She Bangs"]] features both standard mermaids and an octopus-merman.

* The Cray in Creator/ChinaMieville's ''Literature/TheScar'' are essentially lobster-bodied centaurs. [[spoiler:The Grindylow on the other hand are a sort of [[BodyHorror terrifying]] newt-people.]]

* The Cray in Creator/ChinaMieville's ''Literature/TheScar'' are essentially lobster-bodied centaurs.

* Vonda N. [=McIntyre=]'s "divers" are, quite simply, humans genetically engineered for aquatic life. Her historical fantasy novel ''The Moon and the Sun'' has the similar (if naturally-occurring) "sea people." Both are entirely mammalian.

* The TabletopGame/{{Mystara}} setting is home to the kopru, a race of aquatic mind-controllers with {{Cthulhumanoid}} faces, slick eel-like bodies, and triple-finned tails that end in nasty ripping hooks.

** ''Manga/DailyLifeWithMonsterGirl'', also by the same mangaka, also has a Scylla, named Oct.

* Captain Anne Sirena of ''EndlessFrontier'' is a mermaid with an orca's fin. Worth noting is that only the women of her species are unscaled; the males are FishPeople. And much to Haken's embarrassment, the women ''like'' scales on their men.

* ''Franchise/MonsterHigh'' does this in the ''Great Scarrier Reef'' line. The new characters are Posea Reef, the daughter of Poseidon, who has echinoderm-like skin and a [[PlantPerson lower body of seaweed]], Kala Mer'ri, the squidlike daughter of the Kraken, and Peri and Pearl Serpentine, the conjoined daughters of the Hydra, who are half sea-snake. The main cast gets transformed into merpeople, with a MythologyGag behind them. Toralei, the tiger-like werecat, becomes part lionfish, [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Draculaura becomes part vampire squid, [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent Clawdeen Wolf]] becomes part wolffish, and [[ShockAndAwe Frankie Stein]] becomes part electric eel.

* [[http://www.escalofrio.com/n/Audio/Eel_Girl/Eel_Girl.php This lovely]] eel girl may be a somewhat bizarre case.

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* The titular character of ''SquidGirl'' is half-human half-squid, but averts the "human upper half, fishy lower half" part of the trope. Instead, she wears a hat shaped like the top end of a squid and [[PrehensileHair her hairlocks are the tentacles]]. Oh, and ink comes out of her mouth when she sneezes or pukes.

* ''{{Bionicle}}'''s Barraki are based on creatures such as crabs, sharks, cephalopods, eels, and stingrays.