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* Sirens are often portrayed as being mermaid-like in appearance, even though they were originally closer to harpies in the myths.
** Not to mention languages that conflate the two names.
* The chimera is often portrayed as being similar in body structure to cerberus, with the goat head, lion head (which is often depicted as a male lion's head in modern media as opposed to the original female lion's head where the beast was generally considered in Greek mythology to be a female), and a dragon head all together in the front http://anwoanimalworld.wordpress.com/2011/03/17/new-chimera-dragontoy-miniature-has-3-heads/. In original Greek mythology the chimera had the body and front head of a lioness, a snake for a tail (which is still present in modern depictions), and a goat's head on its BACK at the center of the spine https://web.archive.org/web/20120104021705/http://cs.fit.edu/~ryan/chimera.html
** To confuse matters even more, the term "chimera" is often used as a generic term to refer to ''any'' [[Mix-and-Match Critters]].
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