Taur

Centauroid creatures, also known as centaur-like or centauric creatures, appear frequently in mythology and works of fiction. Like the Hippocentaur of Greek myth, such creatures typically possess the body of a four-legged animal with a human or human-like torso where the head should be, giving them six limbs and a double set of ribcages. An example of centauroid creatures in classical Greece would be Ichthyocentaurs.

Ancient Near East
In Mesopotamian mythology the urmahlullu, or lion-man, was a centauroid creature who served as a guardian spirit, especially of bathrooms. Another Mesopotamian centauroid was the Aqrabuamelu or scorpion-man.

Classic mythology, folklore, and literature
Lion-centaurs appear again in English heraldry. A centaur-like archer was at times used as a charge known as a sagittary, named for the constellation Sagittarius. While this charge was typically depicted as a more traditional centaur, the attributed Coat of Arms of King Stephen of England employed leonine-bodied centauroids.

Some medieval bestiaries referred to a half-human, half-donkey creature called an onocentaur.

A draconic centauroid appears in an illustration by Dan Beard, appearing in Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court in 1889.

The Ichthyocentaur is the name of a sea-horse type Centaur being, and the Pterocentaur is a winged Centaur type being.

Modern science fiction and fantasy
Writers of science fiction and fantasy literature frequently include centauroid creatures in their work. The liminal nature of the centaur is sometimes downplayed in these modern creations, lending animal features to the otherwise human upper body. This may include fur, horns, or an upper body which is wholly an anthropomorphised version of the lower-body animal.

Authors often coin names derived from specific animals. The suffix "-taur" is often appended to the name of an animal species ("liontaur") or to its Greek or Latin equivalent ("dracotaur"). Likewise, some fantasy writers, especially within the furry subculture, use "taur" as a generic term for any centauroid creature.

Some centaur-like creatures in modern fiction and games include: