Are they different than Sirens?

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Joe

According to this site: http://www.theoi.com/Pontios/Seirenes.html

Sirens are a type of sea nymph. It doesn't say much about what a sea nymph
is. It does also state the a Siren has the body of a bird but the head or
head and torso of a woman. I suspect that Mermaids, head and torso of a
woman body of a fish, is also a sea nymph.

I have read that the mermaid comes from lonely saiors seeing Manatees and
making up stories of them being a beautiful woman. Girls must have been butt
ugly back then.

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