Achelous 
Achelous' father is Oceanus and his mother is Tethys. His paternal grandparents are Uranus ("himmel") and Gaea ("jord"); his maternal grandparents are Uranus ("himmel") and Gaea ("jord"). He has fifteen brothers and seventeen sisters, named Crinisus, Simoeis, Peneius, Cephissus, Neilos, Asopus, Xanthus, Inachos, Inachus, Phorcus, Nilus, Ladon, Strymon, Uchoreus, Xanthus, Eurynome, Amphitrite, Merope, Clymene, Metis, Pero, Perse, Daeira, Asia, Dione, Argeia, Doris, Aethra, Callirhoe, Melia, Meliboea and the Oceanide. He has a half-brother and two half-sisters, named Triptolemus, Creusa and Philyra.General Notes
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ACHELOIDES (1) were water nymphs, daughters of Achelous, who were sometimes the companions of the Pegasides (Muses). They belonged to a larger class of river nymphs, the Potameides, local divinities named after their rivers. [Columella, On Country Matters 10.263.]
ACHELOIDES (2) was a surname of the Sirens, the daughters of Achelous and Sterope, daughter of Porthaon. [Ovid, Metamorphoses 5.552, 1487; Apollodorus 1.7.10.]
They have a son named Hippodamas.
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