mummies? genus of the zombie family. the two are not taxonomically exclusive groups, educate yourself
Also skeletons by that logic.
A lot of people make this mistake actually! ‘Skeleton’ can refer to any individual member of the family Zombie that has shed its fleshy exoskeleton. It’s just an unlife cycle stage, but because of its distinct appearance we refer to it by a separate common name (similar to how a 'blank panther’ is just a colour variant of leopards and jaguars, not a separate species).
Generally speaking, undead are considered to be members of their original species for taxonomic purposes. After all, a human zombie or skeleton is still closer to a human than it is to a crocodile skeleton. Problems in classification arise when the undead in question is stitched together from multiple sources, with varying academic sources treating them as a new species, a hybrid similar to a mule or liger, or even a construct similar to a bone or flesh golem. There are merits to each of these views, but none of them fully account for the broad spectrum of necrodivergent abominations, and the construct view is inherently harmful, given that constructs are animated by mechanical, electrical, or magical impulses, whereas true undead are characterized by a non-living–possession of a living victim is generally not considered to be the true form of the undead in question–object (not simply corpses, incorporeal undead frequently inhabit buildings, furniture, weaponry, etc.) animated by the spirit of a once-living creature.
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