- Dryads (forests)
- Naiads (springs and rivers)
- Nereid (the Mediterranean)
- Oceanids (the sea)
- Oreads (mountains)
- Limoniads (meadows)
- Limniads (lakes, marshes and swamps)
- Napaea (valleys)
Although long-lived many nymphs can die. Nymphs can cause metamorphoses (Greek for changing shape, usually into plants or animals, as in the novel by Kafka and the book of mythology by Ovid). Women can also be changed into nymphs.
Some of the more famous nymphs are
- Amalthea
- Anna Perenna
- Arethusa
- Calypso (Nymph-Goddess who entertained Odysseus)
- Creusa (Daughter of Gaia and the river god Peneus)
- Echo
- Egeria (cared for Athens' founder-hero, Theseus' son Hippolyte; she taught the second king of Rome, Numa Pompilius)
- Harmonia (mated with Ares to produce the Amazons; Harmonia's necklace features in the story of Cadmus of Thebes)
- Syrinx
- Thousa (mother of Polyphemus, the cyclops in the Odyssey who eats several of Odysseus' companions when they were uninvited houseguests)
