yes
anthropomorphic upper
non-anthropomorphic lower. you dont have to have legs to be a taur
merpeople are taurs
Usually "taur" refers to an entire whole-ass body cut off at the neck to replace the human's legs, though, unless you're talking about the specific case of the Minotaur where the human half is on the bottom.
Which is to say a naga and a merperson are not taurs... they're satyrs.
🖤 drew a diagram because this fascinates me
I guess the key difference between the two is indeed where the body is cut
satyrs uses the bottom half of an animal (like the back legs of something), while taurs use the whole body except the head
so most mermaids in art are satyrs, but they could be made into taurs
snakes are harder to define as they don't have much as for things to differentiate between body and tail. a real headscratcher, you could make a religion out of it