Proteus (disambiguation)

Proteus can mean a number of things:

• In Greek mythology,
  • Proteus was a god, the son of Poseidon
  • Proteus was also the name of a mythical Greek ruler, featured in the story of Bellerophon
• In astronomy, Proteus is a natural satellite of Neptune
• In zoology,
  • Proteus is a genus of small cave-dwelling amphibian,
  • the Bean leafroller Hesperiidae Skipper (Butterfly) of south-eastern U.S.A. is Urbanus proteus. [1]
• In biology, a cultivar of Clematis is Proteus (introduced 1876).
• In bacteriology, Proteus is a genus of Proteobacteria, responsible for many human urinary tract infections.
• In alchemy, the "first matter" (prima materia), usually the metal mercury is called the proteus.
• The USS Proteus was a U.S. Navy tender.
• In software, Proteus is an Instant messenger client for Mac OS X
• In aeronautics, Proteus is an experimental aircraft built by Scaled Composites.
• In the movies, Proteus is the name of the miniaturized submarine that is injected in a human being's bloodstream in the 1966 movie Fantastic Voyage (writer: Jerome Bixby), starring Donald Pleasance and Raquel Welch, and its novelization by Isaac Asimov (1966).
• Proteus (comics), Marvel comics character.
• In medicine Proteus Syndrome is the name of a very rare congenital disorder, known mostly for its most famous sufferer Joseph Merrick, or the Elephant man.
• Proteus is a type of Russian diver propulsion vehicle: see Protei-5 Russian diver-rider.
• In body language, proteans are a class of subtle flirting signals.