Thread:Undoniel/@comment-3406131-20150916145954/@comment-61022-20150916160355

I think whenever possible we should try to categorize sub-groups by their Binomial nomenclature (be it an official real-world scientific nomenclature, or a fictional one within the confines of Marvel publications) which is pretty easy to do with most offshoots of humanity, writers have basically gave these various races (Eternals, mutants, Inhumans, Deviants etc) the various nomenclature.

Alien races however don't seem to have those sorts of classifications (at least not presently).

I regards to the groups of Inhumans who are classified as the Avians/Bird People and Centaurs... I don't think they are so much an offshoot species so much as they are specific groups. Per the Kree engineered the Inhumans to take on the traits of alien races the Kree viewed as enemies (A good example of this are the race that looks exactly like Triton seen in ) so technically every single Inhuman could be classified as a sub-group. Ditto for specific types of mutants. In a lot of these cases when characters of similar character traits of a larger sub-class of humanity band together, they're more of a society. Which I'd say we could benefit from creating a society template and creating classifications of groups that are not teams, and not offshoots of a specific race, but are a separate society. (In which case, all the various pages I made for Native American tribes could be reclassified under this template, we could fit the Avians, Centaurs, the Witches of New Salem, the various societies of Atlanteans that operate outside of the rule of Atlantis.. Etc) into the proper category.

As for alien races.... Perhaps we should come up with out own nomenclature? I mean Skrullian Eternals and what-have-you seems kind of clunky to me. But I'm sure we can apply the guidelines of zoological nomenclature we can probably come up with something that works.

Like for example we could break up the Skrulls as so:

Skrullius reptilius (baseline Skrulls, I ruse reptilius here from the Latined adjective for reptile since Skrulls are reptilian in nature)

Skrullius immortalus (Skrull Eternals)

Skrullius descendus (Skrull Deviants)

But that idea might not work so well some races (Kreeius? Kreeus? This makes my brain hurt)

PS: The Skrull/Dire Wraith connection was explained in .. and not very well... Basically they broke off from the primary Skrull race centuries ago due to their practice of magic. They don't clearly explain if their biological differences are due to some sort of evolution, mutation, or mystical means.