Garlean vs Elezen models

[Zojha]

Or the third option, which is... I don't know why pure-blood garleans come in hyur and elezen packages both.

Clearly genetic engineering

Considering Cid is pretty much a reference character, it's quite likely he had different rules going for him. But that doesn't exactly explain the Hyur-Puries on the Prima Vista.

For now, my theory is: They use the fact they never gave the garleans an actual race in the system to display a greater amount of diversity within it. Alternately, the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is up to when they make garlean NPCs. Either or.