| Name of Animal (if any) | Body of Water | Country or Region |
Description | Date(s) |
| Al-Fintas monster | Persian Gulf | Kuwait | Sting-ray like. Carcass washed ashore in '97. | 1997 |
| Vanna -or- Canavar |
Lake Van | Eastern Turkey | This is the largest lake in Turkey, at 445 meters deep. The animal is described as ~50' long with a serrated back fin and a large eye. | ancient-present |
| Tigris River | Iraq | Mandan people in the marshes of the Tigris believe in two water "monsters". One, the Anfish, is the more Nessie-like, with a long neck and hair/mane. The other, the Afa, is said to have legs. | ||
| River Aracani | Iraq(?) | |||
| River Euphrates | Iraq |