Well, today was a slow day at work, so a bunch of the biologists and I sat around and BSed for most of the day. As one was a brony, I told him about AAG/BH and the stuff concerning taxa. After he spent an hour reading the stories, we then sat the rest of the day working on scientific taxa (for ones I didn’t create already.) So here you are, scientific taxa for a fanfic, coming right at you, with some help courtesy of a biologist from an environmental agency (who says government doesn’t work for you? )

Some notes:

- This will only cover sapient (high-function reasoning) animals, and not merely sentient (low-function reasoning) ones. Humans are HFR; your dog is LFR. Presume the pets, regardless of how sapient they may act at times are merely well-trained and thus sentient vice sapient.

- Chromosomes will be listed in numbers. Any numbers alone indicates a diploid species (needs two sets of chromosomes, one from each parent). For multiple set species, those will be mentioned as such. An example of a diploid species is humans.

- Realize that some species will speciate (create a new species) at either the species level or the subspecies level. For those that have speciated at the subspecies level, they are given a new subspecies name or a new species name outright. The most notable example of speciation is humanity (Homo sapiens divided into H. s. idaltu and H. s. sapiens)

- A chimera species is (taxon) x (taxon). Note that the paternal species is always listed first. Chimera species do exist; the most notable example is the mule (Equus asinus x E. caballus.) Over time, a chimera species may speciate into a distinct species (it’s believed that mules may be doing that relatively soon, and E. a. caballonoides has been proposed as the taxon.)

- Note that hybridized species are not the same as a cryptozoological (“crypto”) species. For example, gryphons are a crypto species; they can mate and have children (chimeras are almost always sterile) and have behaviors not endemic to the species they seem to look like.

- Some names of crypto species will come from already invented taxa (yes, some do exist); for those that we didn’t make up, I’ll underline just for your edification.

- Notes after each species name apply only to the fanfic universe and are not indicative of real life or canon MLP.

This list will be updated as/if other species are introduced.

Needless to say, anyone is allowed to use these; credit me if you’d like.

That being said, let’s get going!