Triton
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Poseidon's son, who raises and calms the waves with his conch shell.
He is pictured as a man above the waist and a fish below — an ancestor of today's merman image.
Depending on how he blew his conch, the sea grew rough or fell calm.
Neptune's largest moon is named Triton — a rare satellite that orbits opposite to its planet's rotation.
SourcesHesiod, Theogony