Oooooohhh belle représentation ... en effet je crois que c'est une première ... je n'aie jamais vu centaure/Taur avec les traits/références d'une tortue ... beau travail et détails ... héhé je crois que je vois certain détails des tortues des Galapagos et la partie tronc/humaine alors la chapeau

Très très bien vu mon cher BJ, c'est en effet avec "Georges le solitaire" en tête que j'ai construit cette chimère !!

Snaketaurs (nagas/lamias) are common in art. Turtle/tortoisetaurs are very rare, though.

Question, what is really au taur? I mean, could a snake creature like the lamias be described as a taur?? (well, technically snakes are still insde the tetrapods group but hey.....)

The furry community considers "taur" to mean feral lower half, anthro upper half regardless of the species of the halves.

OK so under such a definition the presence or not of limbs does not matter, that was the core of my interrogation here...

Well, the character here has an anthro upper half with limbs, but even if it lacked limbs I would qualify it as a taur.
According to the wiktionary:
"Taur (plural taurs) (furry fandom) An anthropomorphic character, often a furry, with a human-like upper body and four-legged lower body, similar to a centaur."

No, subconscious, I don't care what you saw in the thumbnail.

It is not a Taurtoise pole dancer.

HA HA HA HA HA
Never thought about that, it makes my mind dangerously warp and bend and shake around that image........

A turtle centaur. That's a new one.

YESSSSSSSSSSS

Pretty cool, luv unique things like this :3

Exxxxcellent, thanks Zip!! ^.^

Indeed, that's pretty impressive.

Heh heh, thaaaanks a lot LB

Pourquoi ai-je l'impression qu'il n'est pas trop redoutable ? ^^""

Ah, très très bonne remarque, tu me fais en effet penser que j'ai oublié d'inclure quelque chose dans sa description qui m'est apparu dès le moment où je l'ai imaginé~

Ce qui est marrant est que, récemment, on a parlé de Rêve de Dragon... Et là, tu nous ponds une créature tellement incongrue qu'on pourrait l'intégrer dans le jeu. ^^
Denis Gerfaud inventait aussi des créatures improbables, issues de « rêves différents »... Son concept dépassant le simple univers pour déboucher sur tout un multivers !

Teenage taur Hero turtles? ;3

Ha ha ha, excellent one!!

Whaouuuuuu... bah dis donc! Tu t'es "tortu-ré" là ! (Lol.. joli hein )
Trop contente que tu reprennes tes dessins avec tous ces détails. Bravo Maître !

Ooooooh, joli en effet, je savoure !!!!
Merci la Souris, très très heureux que cela te plaise

Now that is a new one as well. You always come up with such wonderful new ideas!!!
I admit I saw a tortoise pole dancer in the thumbnail as well.

Quite happy to have surprised you! ^^
As much as I was surprised by that pole dancer thing I must say

Very good shell detail. The beak and rough skin does look turtle-ish. That would be an imposing sight on the battlefield. I think a little flexible shell extension to the neck of the shell might be a good addition. It could give a little extra room for the body to slide into for protection.

That is quite a great idea, I indeed made a "basic" taur in that the tortoise and human (even if mixed with tortoise features) are distinct, but a more blended-in creature with such characteristics as the one you describe would be extremely interesting to build up!

For a centaur, that would not be a consideration. A horse only retracts its genitals into its body. For a turtle or tortoise, they retract their head(their main head not their "little head" : ) as well as arms and legs. Having an extension of the shell for the human portion would make sense. A turtle's shell is part of its body and even has nerves. They can feel things touching it. A tauroise might even wear armor over its shell.

I do agree with you Tann

O.O Hummmm! Yes! This is very interesting Yeeeeeeeeeeeees! Fantastic amazing warrior!1 Fantastic pic my friend!

Are there female like this?
Can it fully go back into it shell?
What do they mostly eat?
Can it carry others on it's back?

Sorry I just had to ask! ^v^

These are objectively accurate questions, some of which I asked myself already, but I don't have yet all the answers! ^^''' Let's try to see what we can do with that...

* Yes, there is no reason there won't be any females, but I yet don't know if they look different or not depending on how tortoise-ish they are...
* My original idea is that they can fully back into their shell, buuuut it's quite a lot of meat to pack inside... Plus your question just made me realize that tortoises that do that protect their heid with their legs that close the open gap, they can do that because the gap between the lower and upper shell is almost continuously wide from one front leg to the other, but the way I drew this creature, it can not do such a thing! So in the end, they logically aren't able to.
* I suppose they are still vegetarians - at least they were in my mind since I had this galapagos tortoise in mind when creating that organism, but it wouldn't srprise me they would have evolved to be at least partly carnivore - just look at the snapping turtle...
* I... just don't know

Yeah! :Thank you very greatly for the info! Take your time with the rest of the info. I can wait!

Oh, I'm not planning into anymore brainstorming over that now, ha ha X-D

^v^ Ok!

Interesting concept, they're much like living tanks! O.o'' Maybe the could also use turtleshell-shaped helmets on their heads, for better protection! ^_~

Living tanks, that is exactly the point - but those from WWI where speed is involved! X-D
I had Zulu warriors in mind while building up this creature, which explains the lack of further protection apart from a narrow shield (which, if you noticed, got quite a low handle, for the good reason that there is more to protect upward than downward!)~

Thats a nice and creative design. Not seen it so far.

Glad to be able to surprise you DAF

The fact I never thought about a tortoise as a Taur🤔