List of cryptids

Cryptids are animals that cryptozoologists believe may exist somewhere in the wild, but whose present existence is disputed or unsubstantiated by science. Cryptozoology is a pseudoscience, which primarily looks at anecdotal stories, and other claims rejected by the scientific community. While biologists regularly identify new species following established scientific methodology, cryptozoologists focus on entities mentioned in the folklore record and rumor. Entities that may be considered cryptids by cryptozoologists include Bigfoot, Yeti, the chupacabra, the Jersey Devil, the Loch Ness Monster, and the Mokele-mbembe.

Scholars have noted that the cryptozoology subculture rejected mainstream approaches from an early date, and that adherents often express hostility to mainstream science. Scholars have studied cryptozoologists and their influence (including the pseudoscience's association with Young Earth creationism), noted parallels in cryptozoology and other pseudosciences such as ghost hunting and ufology, and highlighted uncritical media propagation of cryptozoologist claims.

List

Aquatic or semi-aquatic

Name	Other Names	Description	Purported Location	Depiction
Cadborosaurus	Caddy	Sea animal	Pacific Coast of North America
Champ	Champy	Lake monster	Lake Champlain, North America
Cryptid Whales	Giglioli's Whale, Rhinoceros dolphin, High-finned sperm whale, Alula whale, Unidentified beaked whales	Sea animal	Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean
Dobhar-chú	Water Hound	Extra-large otter-like carnivorous aquatic mammal	Ireland
Igopogo	Kempenfelt Kelly	Lake monster	Lake Simcoe, Ontario (Canada)
Isshii	Issie	Lake monster	Japan
Labynkyr Devil	Labynkyrsky Chert	Lake monster	Oymyakonsky Ulus, Sakha Republic, Russia
Loch Ness Monster	Nessie	Lake monster	Loch Ness, Scotland
Loveland Frog	Loveland frogman, Loveland lizard	Humanoid frog	Loveland, Ohio
Lusca		Giant Octopus	Blue holes in the Bahamas
Mamlambo	Lake monster	South Africa
Manipogo	Winnipogo	Lake monster	Lake Manitoba, Canada
Megalodon	Otodus megalodon	Giant Shark	Oceans
Mokele-mbembe		Dinosaur (lake, river and/or swamp monster)	Republic of the Congo
Ningen		Humanoid	Subantarctic
Ogopogo	N'ha•a•itk, Naitaka	Lake monster	Lake Okanagan, Canada
Sea serpents		Sea animals, dinosaurs	All bodies of water
Selma	Seljordsormen	Lake monster	Lake Seljord, Telemark, Norway
Steller's sea ape		Sea animal	Pacific Ocean

Terrestrial

Name	Other names	Description	Purported location	Depiction
Almas	Abnauayu, almasty, albasty, bekk-bok, biabin-guli, golub-yavan, gul-biavan, auli-avan, kaptar, kra-dhun, ksy-giik, ksy-gyik, ochokochi, mirygdy, mulen, voita, wind-man, Zana	Non-human ape or hominid	Asia/Caucasus
Amomongo	Orang Mawas, Impakta	Ape or hominid	Negros Occidental, Philippines
Barmanou	Barmanu, Big Hairy One	Ape or hominid	Middle East/Asia
Beast of Bodmin Moor		Large felid	Cornwall, England
Beast of Exmoor		Big cat	England
Bigfoot	Sasquatch	Large and hairy ape-like creature	United States and Canada
British big cats	Alien big cats (ABCs), phantom cats, mystery cats, English lions, Beast of Bodmin, Beast of Exmoor	Carnivorous mammal	Great Britain
Bukit Timah Monkey Man	BTM, BTMM	Forest-dwelling hominid or other primate	Singapore
Chuchunya		Large hominid	Russia
Chupacabra	Chupacabras (Spanish for goat-sucker)		Puerto Rico (originally), South and Central America, Southern North America
Dover Demon			Dover, Massachusetts
Fouke Monster	Jonesville Monster, Southern Sasquatch, Boggy Creek Monster	Hominid or other primate	Arkansas, United States
Honey Island Swamp monster	Letiche, Tainted Keitre	Hominid or other primate	Louisiana, United States
Iemisch	Iemisch Listai	Mix of a Jaguar and Otter	Patagonia
Lizard Man of Scape Ore Swamp	Lizard Man of Lee County	Bipedal	South Carolina, United States
Mapinguari	Mapinguary	Giant Ground Sloth or primate	Amazons
Michigan Dogman		Humanoid dog	Wexford County, Michigan
Minhocão	Big Earthworm	Caecilian	South America
Moa		Flightless bird	New Zealand
Mongolian death worm	Allghoi (or orghoi) khorkhoi	Worm-like animal	Gobi Desert (Asia)
Monkey-man of Delhi	Black Monkey	Big black monkey	Old Delhi, India
Nandi bear	Chemosit, Kerit, Koddoelo, Ngoelo, Ngoloko, Duba	Large carnivore	Eastern Africa
Nittaewo	Nittevo	Small hominids	Sri Lanka
Queensland Tiger	Yarri	Large feline	Queensland
Skunk ape	Stink Ape, Myakka Ape, Myakka Skunk Ape	Primate	Florida, United States
Thylacine	Tasmanian Tiger, Tasmanian Wolf	Marsupial	Australia, New Guinea
Yeren	Yiren, Yeh Ren, Chinese Wildman	Primate (possible hominin)	China
Yeti	Abominable Snowman	Large and hairy human-like entity, various other descriptions	Himalayas (Asia)
Yowie		Large and hairy human-like entity, various other descriptions	Australia
Zanzibar leopard		Large feline	Zanzibar

Flying

Name	Other names	Description	Purported location	Depiction
Ivory-billed woodpecker		Woodpecker	Arkansas, Louisiana, and Florida
Jersey Devil	Leeds Devil	Winged bipedal horse	United States, mainly the South Jersey Pine Barrens, as well as other parts of New Jersey and southeastern Pennsylvania
Mothman	Winged Man, Bird Man, UFO-Bird, Mason Bird Monster	Winged bipedal	Mason County, West Virginia, United States
Thunderbird		Giant bird	North America

See also

• Animalia Paradoxa
• Fearsome critters
• Legendary creature
• List of cryptozoologists
• Lists of legendary creatures
• List of megafauna discovered in modern times
• List of urban legends

Bibliography

• Loxton, Daniel; Prothero, Donald (2013). Abominable Science: Origins of Yeti, Nessie, and other Famous Cryptids. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-52681-4.

External links

• The dictionary definition of cryptid at Wiktionary
• Media related to Cryptozoology at Wikimedia Commons