As seen here https://e621.net/post/show/552576/2014-3-absurd_res-blue_fur-captainpudgemuffin-cost no one can figure out if the turtle tag should be applied, i think not as its clearly a horse DRESSED as a turtle and if you search up turtle and get a horse, well. What do you guys think? i think it shouldn't be myself.

*shrug* Could pass as a hybrid more than a lot of officially intended hybrids do.

I was going to say no, but it turns out that there's a vast precedent for tagging costumes for the species they represent. So yes?

If you have a lizard wearing a fox hood, it still gets tagged as fox, and I don't see wearing a turtle shell costume as any different.

because like i said, if your looking for a cat and its wearing a wolf hoodie... or have wolf blacklisted for whatever reason. i just always thought you tagged the ACTUAL species not whatever bit of clothing was being worn.

To be extra clear, I wasn't saying that you shouldn't tag the one wearing the costume. It just seems that costumes do get included in species tagging.

Is that practice documented anywhere? I tried searching the forum and wiki but couldn't find anything related to tagging costume species.

https://e621.net/forum/show/240663
tl;dr if its visible in image, it gets tagged regardless of how its presented in the image