The Greek Nymphs were deities who are classified as follows:
Mountain nymphs (Oreades),
Plant nymphs (Limoniades),
Tree nymphs (Dryades and Hamadryades, and for fruit trees: Meliades),
Water nymphs (Haliae, Limnades, Nereides, Naiades, Oceanides, and Pagaeae),
Woods and Valleys (Alsaeids, Auloniads, Hylaeorae, Napaeae)
These were mountain nymphs, wood nymphs, stream nymphs, and sea nymphs, all in beauteous female form. They were not immortal but their life span was several thousand years.
Oceanids: Acaste, Aethra, Argeia, Asterope, Beroe, Caliadne,Callirrhoe, Calypso, Cerceïs, Chryseis, Clymene, Clytia, Daeira, Dione, Dodone, Doris, Eidothea, Electra, Etna, Eudora, Europa, Eurynome, Galaxaura, Hippo, Ianeira, Idyia, Leuce, Leucippe, Melia, Meliboea, Melite, Melobosis, Menestho, Merope, Metis, Nycheia, Pasiphae, Pasithoe, Perse, Petraea, Phaeno, Pleione, Plexaura, Polydora, Polyxo, Prymno, Rhodope, Stilbo,Telesto, Theia, Thoë, Tyche, Zeuxippe, Zeuxo
Nereids
The Nereids were the 50 daughters of Nereus (the Sea) and Doris. The were the Nymphs of the Sea, and on the right is how one artist supposed them.One of them was Amphitrite. The stories say that it was when they went and performed a dance on the island of Naxos that Poseidon decided to claim Amphitrite as his bride.