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* Priscilla from ''{{Rango}}'' is supposed to be a mouse, but she actually looks more like [[MisplacedWildlife an aye-aye]] instead.

* Slam Tasmanian and Rev Runner from ''LoonaticsUnleashed''

* ''{{Bonkers}}'': Bonkers D. Bobcat hardly looks like a real bobcat. At least he has downward-facing cheek tufts though.

* Flounder in ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid'' is portrayed as a large yellow fish with blue fins and stripes and nothing like actual flounders (which are large, flat brown fish whose eyes are both on one side of its face) at all. However, that could just be his name, not his species.

** Margaret is supposedly a robin, but looks more like a cardinal (with the male's coloring).

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** Sonic himself looks little like his animal namesake. His spikes look more like styled hair and he hardly has a snout. Instead, he has a jellybean-like nose that's close to face. Same goes with Amy, [[BaseBreaker Shadow]], and [[TheScrappy Silver]] who are also hedgehogs. Also, [[AmazingTechnicolorWildlife hedgehogs aren't blue, pink, black, or silver]].

** Tiny the Tiger looks like ''some'' kind of big cat, but definitely not a tiger. He apparently was originally intended to be a Tasmanian tiger (an extinct Australian marsupial, not actually a cat) but in the game ''Crash of the Titans'' he was redesigned and looks more cat like now. (Possibly a case where the game designer DidNotDoTheResearch.)

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* One episode of TheBerenstainBears features what Brother identifies as a [[http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-bvIhzA5Nu04/TZRdaoP0dmI/AAAAAAAAAks/ueJqBi5TzpA/s1600/Scarlet+Tanager.jpg scarlet tanager]]. It reality, it looks like ''no'' existing species of bird - it has the body shape of a [[http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/PHOTO/LARGE/WAG_072202_00364Z_S.jpg pileated woodpecker]], except all black and with red wings.

** Sonic himself looks little like his animal namesake. His spikes look more like styled hair and he hardly has a snout. Instead, he has a jellybean-like nose that's close to face. Same goes with Amy, [[BaseBreaker Shadow]], and [[TheScrappy Silver]] who are also hedgehogs. Also, [[CaptainObvious hedgehogs aren't blue, pink, black, or silver]].

** Wooper and Quagsire are said to be fish, but are closer in appearance to salamanders.

* Most reindeer appearing in many Christmas specials look absolutely nothing like their real-life counterparts, instead lokking more like mule deer or white tailed deer.

** Slowbro is said to be a hermit crab, but it looks more like a strange cross between a hippopotamus and a salamander with a shell on its tail.

* One episode of TheBerinsteinBears features what Brother identifies as a [[http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-bvIhzA5Nu04/TZRdaoP0dmI/AAAAAAAAAks/ueJqBi5TzpA/s1600/Scarlet+Tanager.jpg scarlet tanager]]. It reality, it looks like ''no'' existing species of bird - it has the body shape of a [[http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/PHOTO/LARGE/WAG_072202_00364Z_S.jpg pileated woodpecker]], except all black and with red wings.

* Diglett and Dugtrio from ''{{Pokemon}}'', despite being both called moles, actually don't even look like moles at all! (for one thing, neither of them have bodies) Drilbur and Excadrill, however...

* [[BigBad Doctor Hamsterviel]] from ''LiloandStitchTheSeries'' is supposed to be a hamster, but he looks more like a gerbil. However, he hates being called a gerbil.

** TheRoadrunner also looks nothing like its real-world counterpart. Roadrunners aren't bright purple/blue nor are they the same size as a coyote.

** The Roadrunner also looks nothing like its real-world counterpart. Roadrunners aren't bright purple/blue nor are they the same size as a coyote.

* Dizzy Devil (the purple Tasmanian devil), Little Beeper (the red roadrunner), and Gogo Dodo from ''TinyToonAdventures''

* Who Who the ring tailed lemur from the ''{{Animaniacs}}'' episode, "Back In Style" hardly looks like a real ring tailed lemur and looks vaguely like a red panda instead.

** Howie Tern looks more like a stork than anything like a tern.
* Evil the cat from ''EarthwormJim'' hardly looks like a cat at all; he looks like a white rat with pointed ears.

* ''SpongebobSquarepants''

* Rigby from ''RegularShow'' is supposed to be a raccoon, but for some reason he looks more like a coati (a South American relative to the raccoon) instead.

** Stitch himself is described as being a dog, but he actually looks more like a mutant koala instead, as pointed out by [[PromotedtoParent Nani]] about halfway through his film.

Some examples are undestandable and forgivable, especially if they are also an example of SeldomSeenSpecies.

** Shirley the Loon looks more like a white duck like those in CarlBarks' [[ScroogeMcDuckUniverse duck comics]] save for a thicker bill, than like any loon.