Quote Originally Posted by Ronnocius View Post
By the same logic, shouldn't "medusas" be called gorgons and "gorgons" called...something else?
Yes they should. And all but one of them should be unkillable.

I've never liked D&D's policy of turning unique monsters into a whole species. Except for minotaurs, that is. For some reason, I do like the idea of a minotaur race. (Maybe the original one had offspring before it was killed.)