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>Random side note: Derpi's tagging on the topic confuses me. They have a Hippogriff and a "classical Hippogriff" but with the discription stating they are their own species. Yet, aren't classical ones a hybrid? More confusing is that they have both a G4 Hippogriff and the very OC you cite as examples of classical Hippogriff so I don't understand what the differentiator is here.

well, that´s more or less less what happens with the seapony species as well. At least, not on the boorus, because the (g4) tag differentiates them from the original ones and they put very clearly that the ones from the 1st gen lack the limbs and the fish tail.A little bit trickier when you have to distinguish them from the merponies but at least, they are different words. You can assume that the sea pony without any parenthesis are the ones who resemble the actual seahorse design and the (g4) ones are the hippocampus version.

The problem emerges as soon as you leave the boorus and you happen to browse other places such as E621, Deviantart, Furaffinity....where they don´t provide such distinction. While they avoid (for the most part) the merpony overlap, they don´t attach the (g4) distinction so you end up coming across pictures of both gens in an indifferent manner.

So, don´t believe that such problems with the tags are limited to the hippogriffs. I have also seen the unicorn and classical unicorn tags popping out there as well.

Although the horse-bird hybrids do have a weirder tag system for distinguishing them between classical (g4) and normal hippogriffs. While it´s understandable that the 4th gen has turned out to be the first generation to introduce the hippogriffs, I wonder who might have been the mastermind behind that split.