New Monster: Sorid Anule

Here's a free monster for your fantasy role-playing campaign:

Sorid Anule

A sorid anule is an amphibious humanoid. He has a frog-like muzzle but with serrated teeth like a shark. Otherwise the features are human, but for the scales. He is covered in hard, coral-like scales on the top of his head, along his back, and on his legs and arms, but softer scales like a fish along his face, neck, and belly. He has webbed toes and fingers and webbing between arms and torso, and he swims with great speed and agility. He has opposable thumbs on his feet as well as his hands, and fingers that end in sharp points. There is an uneven, jagged, and sharp ridge of spines down his back, and a prehensile tail along which the spines get smaller toward the sharp, pointed, stingray-like tail.

The female sorid anule is venomous, secreting poison from a small gland under the tip of her tail that paralyzes her victim (normal Saving Throws apply.) But even on males the tail-tip alone is a formidable piercing weapon.

The sorid anule are sentient and their fighters wear plate armor made of metal scales that slide and pivot to permit freedom of movement, and from which their spines are exposed. They wield barbed weapons (tridents, spears, harpoons, and blowguns).

As a society, sorid anule live in tight-knit tribes, each ruled by chieftains and a ruling class. They are very xenophobic and are more likely to attack first than ask any questions when their territory is intruded. Out in the wild, away from territorial waters, they are a little less violent when encountered, but only marginally so.

They speak their own dialect of mer-speak (the language of the mermen.) They don't count many magic-users among their population, but clerics and the like are more common. Individual motives are as varied as among humans or other races, but overall each tribe seeks to expand territory and influence as their populations grow. Yes, the often fight amongst themselves as well.

When on land the sorid anule must soak in seawater once a day (usually when he sleeps) or begin to take damage as his skin dries and his scales begin to flake off. They are omnivorous and eat with their heads tilted back, sort of moving their necks like lizards to aid in swallowing, a sight many other races find nauseating.

The average sorid anule stands 5' to 5'6", with a tail at least as long as they are tall. They have poor eyesight on land, as their eyes film-over with a third eyelid. When they speak, they prolong their S's: "Ssso, whatsss for sssupper?"

I leave it to you to flesh out their attributes based on the game system you are playing.