We have both lamia and naga to in practice differentiate between leggless taurs that have a human upper body or an anthro upper body but what do we do for legged taurs, is there a way to differentiate between taurs with a human upper body and taurs with a anthro upper body? considering taur is not to be tagged with human or anthro...

Also reminds me what should leggless taurs actually be tagged as if the lower body is not that of a snake or serpent? Cant remember the thread were that was discussed before but i dont believe that was ever really answered/resolved.

Edit: Removed outdated post.

I) we already discussed the possibility of a 'half-humanoid' tag in forum #221775 and I am still waiting for an official verdict.

II) A name for these apod half human/humanoid/anthro creatures, is an interesting question, since currently there is no name (at least none that I know) for these:

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The closest thing I can think of that can cover all of them is serpentine, which describes the body shape.

Genjar said:
There's no such thing as 'legless' taur. Taurs always have minimum of four legs, anything less than that has nothing to do with the term. And lamia/naga is for serpentine creatures.

You might be thinking of chimera.

to be precise taur or centaur as it is most known outside of the fandom really had nothing to do with the number of legs, taur boils down to characters possessing a upper body of a human or anthro and a lower body of a feral animal, its irrelevant how many limbs that choosen feral animal had. The notation that taurs are always multi-legged is something that you added genjar, no entry prior to your edits on the taur tag make any relevance to the number of legs(other then with focus on centaur in the original wiki version as centaur has a horse based lower body) nor is such reference to be found anywhere else on the internet were taur is used or interpreted to mean other species based off of the centaur anatomical concept.

Chimera is a specific species of hybrid creature composed of multiple parts from different species, not at all the half & half anatomy that is spoken of here. And whats spoken of here also doesnt fit under what hybrid is used for on e621, we are talking characters that are literally half the anatomy of one species and half the anatomy of another species, not a seamless mix of traits around the whole body.

BlueDingo said:
The closest thing I can think of that can cover all of them is serpentine, which describes the body shape.

it isnt really a good tag as it does include normal feral snakes and elongated dragons among other completly diferent things as well.

Aside from the slugs there are also bird-taurs that break the 'four leg' rule.
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They're rare, yes, but point is 'number of legs' doesn't quite fit all scenarios.

Edit: Removed outdated post. This was long before split_form etc, were created.

Genjar said:
Those would fit better under chimera than taur.

genjar please compare both the definition of chimera and what is generally being tagged under chimera to the characters/forms we are talking about in this thread because i am seriously at a loss as to why you are bring up that particular species.

Ruku said:
genjar please compare both the definition of chimera and what is generally being tagged under chimera to the characters/forms we are talking about in this thread because i am seriously at a loss as to why you are bring up that particular species.

Like I've said in the past, I'm not a fan of that definition. But it's what we settled on the last time the tag was brought up, so it's what we're using.

Chimera is tagged for any creature that looks it's been stitched together from parts of at least two different creatures.

Genjar said:
In the modern times it has been upgraded to be a general term for any "mixed beast".

It's tagged for any creature that looks it's been stitched together from parts of at least two different creatures.

term mixed beast is too ambiguous and the forms being described in this thread clearly do not fit under that tag, they do not look like multiple stitched together parts and they certainly arnt ever tagged there.

PS; would taur have to be implicated to chimera sence you are implying those under the tag are stiched together creatures as well>_>

Genjar said:
Those would fit better under chimera than taur.

I guess not, their upper and lower bodies belong to the same species and chimera is composed by body-parts of distinct species (usually three or more); for me they resemble more taurs, but might receive an own tag if necessary. I guess I am more on Ruku's side about this.

Note: we are still needing a name for those apod half-half creatures.

Imo the line between 'taur' and 'naga/lamia' is kinda arbitrary anyway. Both have the body of a feral animal with a humanoid torso attached where the neck and head would be, the only real difference is one is specifically a snake and the other is any land animal except a snake.

As far as 'chimera' goes, arguments for why avian and arthropod taurs should be chimeras instead could be applied to all taurs and possibly all anthros. Taur and chimera also aren't mutually exclusive and there are plenty of examples of images that clearly fit both.
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