QUOTE (Coolsteph @ Feb 16 2022, 01:11 AM)

"In response to the increase rain and stormy weather" "increase in", you mean? "glorious mycostrum" Unless that's a species literally named that, I recommend re-phrasing it. The other unusual phrasing is poetic and formal, but not too fanciful or unscientific. "legendary feat" I recommend not using that. "wisdom" I strongly advise against using that, except perhaps in the most intelligent of fauna to poetically refer to the experience of older individuals. ---- There are some it's/its errors in the Honorable Crownworm description.

TY, Fixed.

QUOTE (Coolsteph @ Feb 16 2022, 01:11 AM)

"nannyworm"?

For that caste I've considered governess, nursemaiden, nurse, maid, babysitter, aupair...Settled on nanny because it still invokes a class system and even though its traditionally female I've seen people use it to refer to their male nanny, and they don't develop sexual dimorphism until the Duke/Dutchess stage.

QUOTE (Coolsteph @ Feb 16 2022, 01:11 AM)

There are likely other things I could grant feedback on, but I prefer to do so when they are released onto the submissions subforum.

That would be a glorious and majestic thing to say just as you were about to announce the opening of the new week

Honorable Crown Mycostrum (Latexivora proteus)
Creator: Jarlaxle
Ancestor: Bouffant Mycostrum
Habitat: Krakow Tropical Rainforest, Krakow Tropical Beach
Size: up to 120 cm long (Sheet/Balloon Form), 2 m tall (Wall form), 5 mm long (Crown Form)
Support: Mycelium Fibers
Diet: Photosynthesis, Detritivore, Mutualist (Honorable Crownworm), Latexivore
Respiration: Passive Diffusion
Thermoregulation: Ectotherm
Reproduction: Asexual (Budding), Sexual (Conjugation)

Having ballooned to Krakow Island along with its symbiont, the most Honorable Crown Mycostrum evolved on top of its most useful Honorable Crownworm mount to make the most of its new domain.


(Caption: Ballooning Crown Mycostrum and its Crownworm)

In response to the increase in rain and stormy weather in the new habitat, it has developed weather sensitivity to temperature moisture levels and electric charge in the air, utilizing thin strands to sample the air before ballooning to avoid being rained on mid-flight and make use of static electricity in the air to help their flight, which it will communicate to its steed by using by releasing a distinct scent. This decreases the number of fallen, but has also increased the isolation on the island, as few would take the chance of flight in the very same stormy conditions that would carry them far away.

As the crownworm stables became increasingly eusocial, the chemical communication between them and their honorable mycostrum riders became increasingly particular, with different signals for different forms, starting at different ages. Indeed, one of the signals was that of a young nannyworm ready to get the first crown. Plebworms have the richest diversity of signals, with combination gradients helping guide strands toward degrees of thread density. Countworms are particularly receptive to the signal commanding them to find their crown a match with which to mate, and they might mate with the other crown's mount as well.


(caption: Honorable Crown Mycostrum eating Bundom rubber armor)

Yet the biggest opportunity was still to come, as the majestic [[Bundom]] started leaving rolls of rounded rubber in various sizes for various ages, the crownworm started taking it as a building material, embedding it in the supporting walls of the nests among the mycostrum threads. Over generations, the crown mycostrum in its infinite majesty has solved the mystery of digesting it, breaking it down into orange fatty acids, much like certain mycelial bacteria of the Micromonospora family from another time and place. The fatty acids are used as a binding agent with which to strengthen the walls, grow more mycostrum, and even accelerate the growth of crownworms when the tasks left for older crownworms were left undone. With this new building material and social structure, the nests took a new form, building towers of rubber tires in mycostrum oil and mud and laying sheets of fibers to dine on the sunlight, creating the distinctive tent citadel appearance.

I want to thank ahead of time the most gracious and honorable of mods for allowing me to use this image for the main species page, which is technically within the bounds of the rules, and also on a unrelated note I am posting this on my birthday. just sayin'.

Honorable Crownworm (Regalis unicornis)
Creator: Jarlaxle
Ancestor: Bouffant Knightworms
Habitat: Krakow Tropical Rainforest, Krakow Tropical Beach
Size: 3 cm long
Support: Exoskeleton (Chitin)
Diet: Herbivore (Honorable Crown Mycostrum, Hatted Mycostume, Ghost Mycostrums, Redcap Mycostrums)
Respiration: Passive (Tracheae)
Thermoregulation: Heterotherm
Reproduction: Sexual, eusocial (Dutchess/Duke, Externally Fertilized Eggs)

Emanating from the most matrimonial pious and chaste of Bouffant Knightworm bloodlines, their chivalrous ancestors in their noble highness have ballooned their way to the untamed Isle of Krakow on the threads of their mycostrum capes. Recently cleared of its thick vegetation through the strife afflicting the world's flora, it proved a familiar domain ripe for the taking, and so they did, bringing peace and tranquility upon the feral land.

It was during this time that they adorned their earliest of horns, bringing the excessiveness of their armor to their brow to better feed their mycostrum crowns, becoming the '"Honorable Crownworms''.
It was during the time of colonization that they first raised themselves on their 8 legs, chosen for reaching further into the unconquered land and escaping its perils.

Alas, the peace was not to last. Soon the land was known, and the journeys across the land were not as long, so the neighbors grew closer, the nests more populous, and the noble families grew restless. Trouble was brewing under the mycostrum shroud, and only the most fertile would prevail.
To allow for the growing matrimonial demands of their elders and to feed the hunger of their kin, the noblest of youth would spend longer in service of the royal house, taking on whatever duties their growing physique allowed. Over the eons, these evolved into 6 distinct stages of life, each mastering a particular task, each serving in their splendid capacity as their own caste.

==Stages of life ==


[*] ''Larva:'' While not quite a working caste, the mastery of its role should not be underestimated. Evolving to ease its cost on its noble dutchess, it hatches completely limbless, with rings in their place, separated by the locations of future joints, each ready to grow into a segment like a garment worn by the growth of flash underneath.

[*] ''Nannyworm:'' Once gaining the basic abilities to walk, navigate the world and carry objects, it will start taking care of its eggs and young siblings, as the little brats might as well be helpless eggs with mouths, they depend on the nanny to feed and carry them '(Caretaker, Nurse)'.

[*] ''Plebworm:'' Expanding its ancestral antennas 5 branches and taking its first mycostrum crown around a bobbin-like horn, it will start to use its antennae like a loom, moving its antennae back and forth to create different weavers for different uses. Its spindly legs will likewise grow branches, used as hooks to climb between mycostrum strands '(Mycostrum farmer, Tent construction worker)'.

[*] ''Crusaderworm:'' thickening and compressing together its antennae branches, it wields them like axes, cutting pieces of redcap or anything else it might find useful and carrying them against its bulbous hooked horn, both of which will also be used for fighting. Its smaller mycostrum crown is used as a rappelling rope or hauling rope to rally its hauling capacity. Its legs are sturdier, using their thick hooks to climb difficult surfaces ''(Forager, Warrior)''.

[*] ''Countworm:' By Expanding the branches of its antennae in both directions, much like the legs, and compressing together the hooks on its legs into a flat surface, much like its antennae, it can use all its limbs as shovels. With 10 shovels and a thick horn to crack or nudge harder obstacles, it is an expert digger, using its mycostrum crown as a rappelling rope ''(Digger, Diplomatic card, Colonizer)''.

[*] ''Dutchworm/Dukeworm:'' The female and male form of the adult breeding caste, they've evolved to withstand and repel the onslaught of invasions and rebellions their position will attract. Their antennae branches inflate and compress into exoskeleton cracking wracking balls. Their shovel legs expand into full shields, buying them time as they turn to attack. They are mainly differentiated by the larger size of the female and her proportionally large abdomen for laying eggs in mass ''(Breeders, Matriarch, Patriarch)''.


(Caption: Physical development)


(Caption: size ranges)


==Vermpublic==

The vast majority of the loyal subjects in the nest, more formally known as a Vermpublic, will spend most of their lives as plebs and fall as noble crusaders. A small portion will survive to live as counts, whose dangerous proximity to the treacherous breeding age can be delayed by making use of them in the low-oxygen underground tunnels.
The potential heirs to the great houses need constant and sometimes fatal policing, as they lack any pheromonal suppressors of reproductive capacity, and at other times they'll rebel successfully against the graceful royal couple, taking their place and finding a new mate among the other families, or escape the tunnels to find mates in the wild. Despite their disposition, without them, a noble house will surely fall.

The most important use of counts is as Diplomatic cards, as matrimony between great houses releases the jolliest of scents, reinforcing the sanctity of cooperation.

The newly mated pair will leave together, attempting to join or form new colonies, where they can use their flat leg and antenna surfaces o help guide the majestic fall while ballooning, dig down a new borrow, restore an abandoned one, and even act as their nannies as they start breeding before the transformation into duke and dutchess.
Together, their graces will lead to a new royal nest, coming together with other noble families to form a most Serene Vermpublic. They will strike new trade deals, exchange favors, betray, backstab, and rise to power.

Crucially, not a single member of the royal family will ever smudge their consciousness with such improper thoughts, rather it is in the gestalt of the family and the physical structure of the noble house, as a map of long-lasting pheromones acts not as just as signage, but as a political and logistical map of associations, reinforcements, and even crude chemical logic gates.

With the embedded intelligence, they will dig hatcheries, raise walls and family mounds, and deploy mycostrum tents as photosynthetic farms, raising the most glorious Vermpublics.


(Caption: The most serene and [[Honorable Crown Mycostrum]] Vermpublic)

In the last million years, a new construction material has been favored. Their forefathers brought forth the ratchet [[Hatted Mycostume]] and its evil latex defense, and many honorable crusaders have fallen victim to its binding doom. The evolution of the most magnificent[[Bundom]] beast has left a constant supply of rubber armor rolls. The most honorable [[Crown Mycostrum]] has evolved to make use of it, and turn it into a mixture of fatty acids to strengthen sediments and accelerate the growth of youngling.

The most honorable of graces are otherwise much like their noble ancestors, with a soft meaty core and a hard chitin extruding exoskeleton, and proper and pious external mating.

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Name:
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Creator?: Y

Ancestor:
Listed?: Y
What changes?:

• External?: balancing hind leg/tail, relocated tank spiracles, so purple it makes purple flora jelly.
• Internal?: reinforced knee joints
• Behavioral/Mental?: Migration pattern

Are Changes Realistic?: Y
New Genus Needed?: Anatomical changes that are likely to be significant down the line

Habitat:
Type?: 2/2
Flavor?: 3/3
Connected?: Y
Wildcard?: N/A

Size:
Same as Ancestor?: Y
Within range?: N/A
Exception?: N/A

Support:
Same as Ancestor?: N
Reasonable changes (if any)? : Reinforced Knee joints
Other?: re: walking with tentacles on the planet furaha blog

Diet:
Same as Ancestor?: Y
Transition Rule?: N/A
Reasonable changes (if any)?: N/A

Respiration:
Same as Ancestor?: Y
Does It Fit Habitat?: Y
Reasonable changes (if any)?: N/A
Other?:

Thermoregulation:
Same as Ancestor?: N
Does It Fit Habitat?: Y
Reasonable changes (if any)?: Thicker hide, migration patterns
Other?:

Reproduction:
Same as Ancestor?: Y
Does It Fit Habitat?: Y
Reasonable changes (if any)?: N/A
Other?:

Description:
Length?: Good
Capitalized correctly?: Y
Replace/Split from ancestor?: Split
Other?:

Opinion: Approved;

Spinybun (Biradulus dorsalspina)
Creator: Jarlaxle
Ancestor: Rainbun
Habitat: Krakow Tropical Rainforest, Krakow Tropical Beach, Krakow Tropical Watershed
Size: 6 cm long
Support: Soft-Bodied (Hydrostatic Skeleton)
Diet: Detritivore
Respiration: Passive Diffusion
Thermoregulation: Ectotherm
Reproduction: Sexual (male and female, broadcast spawning in water, eggs)

Spinybuns have split from their ancestors, extending themselves into year-round detritivores. Stemming from the same toothy lineage that produced the [[Bundom]], a mutation has reproduced the toothy extensions of the counter-arm bristles on the main body's gonad coverings. Proving themselves useful defenses, larger "back teeth" were selected for, eventually evolving into long defensive spines. These spines were so successful in deterring predators, that the spinybun has lost most interest in the outside world.
No longer needed as feelers to sense around its environment, the counter arms have further specialized in gathering scraps. Rolling right over the front of the mouth opening, they now work like a pair of radulae, taking turns as one scrap food from the ground below while the other pushes the food into the mouth. If viewed from below, this creates the appearance of having just one extremely fast radula coming in and out of the mouth.
Their body shape has evolved into a flat fusiform, giving room for an extended digestive tract. During the day they will fold their spikes backward and dig themselves under a thin layer of dirt to avoid desiccation. They will erect their spines from under the dirt, as thin tubes around the base of the spines that evolved from their ancestral flaps give them access to above-ground air, as well as collecting basic sensory information such as time of day and weather conditions. During this time they will crawl around and eat whatever useful nutrition is around that spot. If they are hungry and can't find more, they will wait until nighttime, at which point they will emerge from the ground, using chemoreceptors around the spines to find better sources of nutrition during the night, though they will go back underground if they can't find anything by sundown.

They mate during the wet season, lowering their spikes into water sources and spawning their gametes out of their spine-tubes, produced by a pair of gonads placed directly under the spikes in each section of the body.

Bundom (Latexamictus limaxdum)
Creator: Jarlaxle
Ancestor: Rainbun
Habitat: Krakow Tropical Rainforest, Krakow Tropical Beach
Size: 12 cm long
Support: Soft-Bodied (Hydrostatic Skeleton), Constructed armor (Rubber)
Diet: Herbivore (Hatted Mycopstume, Ghost Mycostrums, Hexagoleaves, Noodleaves (Juveniles), Tidal Leafstar, Shrub Gazebo (Litter), Krakow Dwarf Gazebo (Litter))
Respiration: Passive-Diffusion
Thermoregulation: Ectotherm
Reproduction: Sexual (male and female, broadcast spawning in nests)

The bundom has split form its ancestor, evolving into herbivores to take advantage of the empty niche, and taking advantage of the newly evolved companions in their environment. While lacking natural defenses or camouflage of their own, they have evolved to instinctively build both. They will wound the rubbery stem of the [[Hatted Mycostume]] and suck in the liquid latex, which they then mix with green plant pulp and regurgitate around their segments, letting the latex coagulate and form rubbery armor pieces that mimic the segments of [[Noodleaves]] in appearance.

Early on, their ancestors responded to the evolution of the [[Hatted Mycostume]] with defenses against blindly swallowing latex and having it coagulate inside their bodies. They evolved a regurgitating instinct, a series of sphincters separating the gut along segment lines, and a horizontal anal cavity with a strong dorsal "butt cheek" that allowed its ancestor to use its weight to grind down and push out stuck rubber pieces. As it evolved to make use of the latex, the first gut chamber stopped absorbing nutrition altogether, instead acting as an esophagus when feeding, and inflating into a relatively air-tight latex chamber during preparations for construction.
The rubber aids in locomotion, providing additional traction, much like rubber tires, and indirectly assists the act of respiration by gulping and pushing air onto the skin in the process of undulation. The armor provides an additional degree of defense from desiccation, as well as predators. When preyed upon, the bundom will tighten the armor pieces together, and when that doesn't work it will strip the armor pieces all together and run away, often leaving a confused predator with an empty rubbery armor piece between its mandibles. Whenever the armor gets lost, broken, worn out or outgrown, they will try to find matching armor pieces or make new ones if none are found.

The outer skin of the counter arms, as the only body parts that are consistently exposed, is covered with small eye spots, each a concentration of exposed light cones, able to navigate color but not quite tell a shape apart. The counter arms have adapted from scraping decayed plant matter to cutting and grinding living plant matter to a pulp, growing thicker and moving to face each other, becoming full mandibles. Their bristles have evolved into primitive keratin covered teeth.
The mouth has evolved into a small proboscises, initially evolved to penetrate the rubber wound of the [[Hatted Mycostume]] and access the latex before it coagulates, it has grown to compensate for the growing counter arms and now acts much like the extruding head of a 3d printer and allows the bundom to shape the rubber the desired artifact, as well as acting as a tongue to take in the insides of the mandibles. The proboscises is covered with chemoreceptors, acting as both taste and smell, often coming up to "lick the air" when in search for food, mates or danger.

During the wet season, they gather in large numbers, fill up on latex and strip their armor. Males will dig mating pools and cover the edge with latex. If it survives the rain and holds in the water, a female will find it suitable to lay her eggs in, which the male will proceed to fertilize. The female will then try to cover it with as much latex as she can, both providing her young with starting material as well as preventing competition from other females for the same nest, while leaving just enough space for water to sip in and oxygenate the eggs. Past a certain point, the male will try to fight her off to leave room for more females to come and lay their eggs in his pool. Due to the violent mating ritual, adults rarely survive long enough to meet the new generation emerging, usually about 3 to 4 weeks after.

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Creator?: Y

Ancestor:
Listed?: Y
What changes?:

• External?: Size, algae growth, sexual display
• Internal?: N/A
• Behavioral/Mental?: N/A

Are Changes Realistic?: Y
New Genus Needed?: Y
Different ecological niche, different lifestyle

Habitat:
Type?: 2/
Flavor?: 2/3
Connected?: Y
Wildcard?: N/A

Size:
Same as Ancestor?: N
Within range?: Y
Exception?: N/A

Support:
Same as Ancestor?: Y
Reasonable changes (if any)?: N/A
Other?: Why not "endoskeleton (wood)"?

Diet:
Same as Ancestor?: Y
Transition Rule?: N/A
Reasonable changes (if any)?: N/A

Respiration:
Same as Ancestor?: Y
Does It Fit Habitat?: Y
Reasonable changes (if any)?: N/A
Other?:

Thermoregulation:
Same as Ancestor?: Y
Does It Fit Habitat?: Y
Reasonable changes (if any)?: N/A
Other?:

Reproduction:
Same as Ancestor?: Y
Does It Fit Habitat?: Y
Reasonable changes (if any)?: N/A
Other?:

Description:
Length?: Decent
Capitalized correctly?: Y
Replace/Split from ancestor?: Replaced
Other?:

Opinion: Approved;

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I think she's into the one on the left

Given their taller and flatter fan, they'd need larger spiracles to maintain the same internal volume of captured air. In this case the volume of air should be slightly higher, but not by much.

QUOTE (Coolsteph @ Jan 23 2022, 07:34 PM)

" the bike of Ophan Scimitars" Is "bike" species-specific jargon for a pair, or is that a typo? The diet list has an extra comma after "Grassland Lizatokage". "They are not as fast as their ancestors[...]" This is a very long sentence. " has being rough" I recommend: "They continually grow teeth in their oral ring past the growth of the skull, compensating for constantly breaking their teeth on bones and other hard tissues in a carcass." The next sentence can start with: "The species has also developed a higher density[...]" "blood sand and dust" Blood, sand, and dust. "evolved mimic" I recommend: "Their tail feathers aid in intimidation and defense due to their mimicry of the eyes of Argusraptors". The sentence that starts with "to aid in" needs to split, because it's too long.

Done

added clarification that yes, a bike is a pair of Ophan Scimitar (Ophan is a word for wheel in hebrew, so two wheels...)

Fuzing the micro lungs into connected chambers allow it to quickly take in the large quantities of the air it would require for short bursts of intense flight, once connected simply breathing in rhythm front to back would make them unidirectional, which would become more efficient as the middle spiracles were lost.

Is there anything that still needs to be addressed here?

To clarify: they are 90cms long, their ancestors are 80cm Long, with most of the difference being in the torso. The tails are about the same length as the ancestor, but more mascular at the base.

I believe the misinterpretionn is a visual illusion. As described, their main adaptation is the elongation of the pillar erect "socket" rims into railing, thus allowing the base of the leg to swing back and forth along it, which is why the right leg is pushed forward while the left leg is pulled backwards. The later covers the back area of the torso that would otherwise look like an extension of the tail.

This should come without saying, but nature has yet to find an impenetrable defense mechanism, and if that was a reasonable requirement no defense mechanism would ever evolve, as even if it could achieve complete protection it wouldn't be able to reach it using the iterative process of evolution.
Yet we keep seen defense mechanisms show up in nature, because all that is required is to increase the probably of unjustifiable cost to the attacker.

A pack of Heynas can take down a rhino, but will generally stay away unless it's injured, as they will otherwise loose a few members while trying. Lions will eat hedgehogs when lacking any other choice, but they generally avoid doing so because that will rarely be worth the injury.

Likewise, a pack of argusaptors can take down an Ophan Scimitar, but will be unlikely to regain the cost of the injuries they will incur in the process.

P.s. I did remove the adorable yet confusing tear reflection from the eyestrils.

QUOTE (Coolsteph @ Jan 22 2022, 05:49 PM)

Judging by a quick glance through them, these seem intriguing. I like the diagrams and extra views of them. I spotted a few typos while glancing through one: "overtime" should be "over time", and "vassals" should be "vessels".

Thanks, fixed.
Do any of the Caonach descendants you've been working on grow by river banks? Asking for some hungry Vinegooroons.

Noodleaves (Solisodalicium catenacohors)
Creator: Jarlaxle
Ancestor: Flopleaves
Habitat: Krakow Tropical Rainforest, Krakow Tropical Beach
Size: 5-10 cm long (Individual), 25-150 cm long (Colony)
Support: Flexible Exoskeleton / Cell Wall (Cellulose)
Diet: Photosynthesis, Detritivore
Respiration: Passive (Stomata)
Thermoregulation: Ectotherm
Reproduction: Sexual (Alternating Hermaphrodite, Seed-Like Eggs)

During the nitrogen crash, their ancestors experienced extremes of nutrition and starvation. Large fields of flopleaves would flood the horizon to feed on the decayed matter only to starve out and be replaced by barren land. To overcome this, social flopleaves were able to raise themselves above the rest. By anchoring their roots into each other, they were able to share water and nutrition from the ground and sugars from photosynthesis.

This eventually led to the colonial form, the Noodleaves. Local to Krakow Island, they were able to nearly replace their ancestors within their territory. Each Noodleaf can be made of anywhere between 5 to 15 Individuals, all siblings of the same age and parents. Along the chain, each noodleaf zooid will interlock its 4 leaves with the 4 root branches of the zooid in front of it, creating a "handshake". Inside the handshake, a pool of sap acts as both a reserve and a resource exchange between the pores of the lower zoid and the roots of the one on top of it. While any zooid with sun exposure along its stalk generates some sugars from photosynthesis, the frontmost "flowering zooid" produces the most, and likewise, while any zooid with ground contact touching the exposed roots of its "handshake" will take in some ground nutrition, the last "tail zoid" takes in most of the nutrition. Using their combined strength they can dig their burrows and access deeper sources of nutrition on one end, out-compete other flora for the sun on the other, use their shared pools of resources to travel further on their journey, and seek better grounds by combining their nervous systems and comparing levels of sun exposure, forming a very basic form of vision which they use to avoid shadows, track the sun throughout the day and determine the time of day. During the nighttime, they will roll into their borrows. Only when in pain they will disband, at a great cost of resources that is only slightly less costly than death, after which they will seek each other out by pheromones and touch.

At any given time each Noodleaf is either fraternal or sororal, all male or all female. When they are ready to mate, fraternal Noodleaves will close their flowering zooids and seek sororal noodleaves to rub their heads against, often requiring that they will be able to reach the same height or crawl along the sororal Noodleaf's stalk. Once mated, the fraternal Noodleaf will seek a new burrow in which it will transform into a sororal Noodleaf, while the sororal Noodleaf will grow full seeds and seek out new territory where she will dig multiple small burrows each with several seedlings, after which she will dig a new burrow of her own where she will transform into a fraternal Noodleaf.

Tonguegrooved Locrint (Dimachaerus bilinguis)
Creator: Jarlaxle
Ancestor: Sand Locrint
Habitat: Adults: North Ovi Tropical Scrub, Ovi Tropical Savanna, South Ovi Tropical Scrub, Ovi Tropical Beach, Ovi Subtropical Beach, West Dixon Subtropical Beach; Juveniles: Rose Subtropical River, Ovi Subtropical River, Banelord Subtropical River, Rose Subtropical Watershed, Ovi Tropical Watershed, Banelord Subtropical Watershed, Towel Subtropical Watershed, Niyo Tropical Watershed
Size: 25 cm long (adults), 50 mm long (Juveniles)
Support: Exoskeleton (Bony Plates)
Diet: Adults: Twistworms, Paneltopedes, Wortopedes, Scorpioworts, Wormback, Scrubwort, Basketeater, Mucus Quataetar, Slooíde, Vinegooroon, Talpack Larvae, Golden Notback larvae, Vicious Little Notback Larvae, Scuteback larvae, Asterplent Larvae, Chunky Asterplent Larvae, Tombstone Asterplent Larvae, Palmcap Larvae, Basket Asterplent Larvae, Devourer Asterplent Larvae; Juveniles: Filter-feeding, Detritivore
Respiration: Active (Back-Lung)
Thermoregulation: Ectotherm
Reproduction: Sexual (Oviparous, 2 sexes)

The Tonguegrooved Locrint has split from its ancestor, specializing in catching prey much smaller than itself, using its upper pincer tentacles to pierce and poke through underground mounds tunnels, and burrows, and producing a sticky mucus on its lower tentacles to catch as many as it can in one "lick", much like the anteater tongues another time and place. Adapting to use both in tandem, the upper pincer-tentacles has evolved its namesake groove through which the lower tongue-tentacles can extend into the habitat of its prey, and by extending its cheek-noses into the groove, it can smell into the burrow, and by lowering and raising its back lung with the thick muscles in front of it, it can create intense suction through the groove and pull in additional prey, lining one nostril on the inside of the groove while still maintaining two nostrils outside to watch for danger, along with its flexible eyes.
As the lower tentacles are hidden the vast majority of the time, they have become the canvas for display colors with minimal disruption for the camouflage. During mating rituals males will take out their lower tongue-tentacles and swing above their heads in a macho display of dexterity and strength, trying to capture the attention of the female with their bright yellow colors, while female tentacle-tongues are colorless.

To help it search and dig out underground tunnels, it has adapted its forelimbs for digging, extending its palm-plates and claws into large shovels. Each of its palm-plates curves upwards, giving the claws their own muscle attachments that allow each claw to bend independently and aid in poking for tunnels. It will also use its digging capacity defensively, digging multiple burrows in its range to sleep and hide in if threatened.

Evolving a thick hind leg to support itself while digging has allowed it to change the way it reproduces. As the mating pair will hop towards each other, they will tie their tentacle together and use each other for support with their claws, holding each other erect and embracing each other in a hug until they are close enough for a cloacal kiss. Like its ancestor, the male will then leave to seek out other females but will die slightly after, while the female will seek out fresh water to lay her eggs in and die in the process. As they no longer need to siphon water for copulation, but still need water for spawning, the females will usually inhabit ranges closer to fresh water sources than the males.

Hatted Mycostume (Viridiscaena rubigaleam)
Creator: Jarlaxle
Ancestor: Ghost Mycostrums
Habitat: Krakow Tropical Rainforest
Size: 20cm tall fruiting body
Support: Rubber
Diet: Detritivore
Respiration: Passive Diffusion
Thermoregulation: Ectotherm
Reproduction: Sexual (airborne spores, conjugation), Asexual (budding)

The Hatted Mycostume has split from its ancestor, using the defensive adaptation of another for shelter, in response to the invasion of Crownworms to Krakow. Both male and female spores will stick to [[Hexagoleaves]] and use them as "meeting spots" on which to fertilize, from which they'll grow their mycelial network under the honeycomb. During the wet seasons, they will each grow a single large fruiting body under the mat, using the hexagleaves toxins to defend themselves, and raising section of the mat in the process, giving them their namesake appearance, an impression further reinforced by the strands of spore-covered mycelial "hairs" on the rim emerging under the cap. They will further try to reinforce the associations with the hexagoleaves through color, which occasionally works on those who have experienced the toxins in the past.

To help protect the stem of the fruiting body and support the additional weight, they extrude a mixture of polysaccharides, resin, tannins, alkaloids, oil, sugar, and starch, more commonly known as latex, which coagulates into a rubber covering around the stem when it is exposed to air on the outmost layer of the stem. Latex reserves can be found within the underground mycelial network in liquid form accumulating year-round in preparation for the annual fruiting.

They are otherwise much like their ancestors, fulfilling a critical ecological role in converting captured nitrogen into ammonium, often from the nitrogen-rich waste of Immortazmenian Bunvils.

Hexagoleaves (Phylloaptus turfavus)
Creator: Papainmanis
Ancestor: Tesseleaves
Habitat: Krakow Tropical Rainforest, Kraow Tropical Beach, Krakow Tropical Watershed
Size: 12mm wide
Support: Cell Wall (Cellulose)
Diet: Photosynthesis
Respiration: Passive Diffusion
Thermoregulation: Ectotherm
Reproduction: Sexual (Spores), Asexual (Fragmentation)

Hexagoleaves have replaced their ancestor within their habitat of Krakow island, originating from a tasseleaves on the rim of the Krakow watershed, a random split from 4 sided symmetry into 6 allowed them to maximize the connection surface area to each neighbor and overcome the weaker of connection of square shapes in their corners, improving nutrition, signal flow within and structural integrity within the resulting honeycombs. They now regularly expand their mats onto land, dipping a corner into the watershed and delivering water to the rest of the mat, which in turns sends back nutrition taken from the ground surface.

Like their ancestor, the mat forms a connected superorganism that releases a mild toxin when disturbed. They reproduce by waterborne spores, though with enough wind some will be carried by air from the parts that are tied to land.

The post above is planned to replace the Lobestar as my first new member submission and act as a transitional form for a future lobestar like species.

Immortazmenian Bunvil (Vesicapodus diaboli)
Creator: Jarlaxle
Ancestor: Fangbunny
Habitat: Krakow Tropical Beach, Hydro Tropical Beach, Mancerx Riparian
Size: 10 cm long
Support: Soft-Bodied (Muscular Hydrostat)
Diet: Adult: Carnivore (Bundom, Spinybun, Tootsy Nibbler, Honorable Crownworm, Dragnt Spardyvern (Juveniles), Rainbun, Corpse Spardi, Spardiflies, Warmbuns, Rainbun, Toothgrip Bristlebunny, Bouffant Knightworm, Knightworm, Shed Knightworm, Rolyknights, Darwinian Crestgills, Ferrofilament); Larva: Filter-feeder
Respiration: Semi-Active (Pressure swing membrane)
Thermoregulation: Ectotherm
Reproduction: Sexual (Male and Female, Broadcast-Spawning in Water, Eggs)

The Immortazmenian Bunvil has split from its ancestor, nearly doubling in size with the aid of respiratory adaptation, it has evolved to make the most out of the opportunities around it and to weather the risks of a small opportunistic carnivore with its extreme regenerative abilities.
Its eyes have evolved into protected pinhole eyes and have moved forward into the base of the counter arms, allowing them to move and wiggle around, while neuron clusters with short-term memory behind the eyes layer multiple blurry images from slightly different angles to synthesize high-contrast mental images, while a similar cluster at the base of the tail uses multiple smell measurements to draw a vector to the source of the smell. Having its critical sensory input coming from opposing ends, it has so far resisted cephalization, but learned associations are retained in small neuron clusters along the sides of the body. This leads to a reflexive flight response, as sometimes the back legs can start running in response to a negative association before the front legs, so when pushed forward the front limbs will immediately start running, assuming the back limbs are already doing so.

==regeneration: ==
When injured, it will grow a wound epidermis, using the overabundance of macrophages to break down dead cells and feed a blastema mass, bringing the cells into a juvenile stem state from which the tissues and organs will regrow. It can regrow its tail, limbs, fang segments, and entire body segments, as long as there's enough of it left to sustain and provide for regenerative growth. The regeneration is linked to the endocrine system's pain response. This sometimes leads to fatal chronic pain condition that causes the last segment to continuously grow additional segments as if they were the end of amputation. Individuals suffering from this will continue until they can't eat fast enough to sustain their growth and die of malnutrition. When this condition strikes younger individuals, the limited gap between the many segments will restrict healthy gonad development. Older members afflicted by the condition sometimes do manage to spawn before they die, but will lose out on mating if they lack a tail with which to detect pheromones.

==Respiration:==

(Caption: Breathing membrane closeup.)

Having lived through the nitrogen crash, its ancestor's respiration evolved to maintain a higher rate of oxygen exposure while the planetary nitrogen levels recovered. Covering the respiratory membrane hanging on its underbelly, remnants of its ancestral slug-foot, are tiny hairs made out of long tightly packed baits, used to capture dirt dust, and pathogens, which are regularly cleaned by mucus produced by glans lining the top of the membrane. As the air travels into the trachea, it will pass by side chambers lined with groups of specialized bait cells that intersect and bind their long baits into a porous spiral that acts as a zeolite-like nitrogen bed. These chambers work in pairs, as one will be capturing nitrogen from the trachea while the other releases previously captured nitrogen externally, turning the trachea into a hydrostatic pressure swing, increasing the oxygen concentration in the alveoli, a bulbous cauliflower-like structure with very thin walls, facilitating oxygen exchange with a closed circulatory system extending down from the heart of each segment. Eventually, the nitrogen beds lose their structural flexibility and ability and get stuck with nitrogen, getting digested internally as dead cells and coming out as nitrogen-rich dung.

==Reproduction:==
It otherwise lives much like its ancestor, hatching as a larva in the water until it is ready to emerge to land, killing prey with the fangs of its counter arms and seeking the pheromones of its kind to gather and spawn along bodies of water.

Approval Checklist:
Art:
Art Present?: Y
Art clear?: Y
Gen number?: Y
All limbs shown?: Y
Reasonably Comparable to Ancestor?: Y
Realistic additions?:

Name:
Binomial Taxonomic Name?: Y
Creator?: Y

Ancestor:
Listed?: Y
What changes?:

• Behavioral/Mental?: Forming cave wall colonies

Are Changes Realistic?: Y
New Genus Needed?: N


Habitat:
Type?: 1
Flavor?: 1
Connected?: Y
Wildcard?: N

Size:
Same as Ancestor?: y
Within range?: Y
Exception?:

Support:
Same as Ancestor?: Y
Reasonable changes (if any)?:
Other?:

Diet:
Same as Ancestor?: Y
Transition Rule?:
Reasonable changes (if any)?: Same + Filter-Feederwhich is reasonable for the species

Respiration:
Same as Ancestor?: Y
Does It Fit Habitat?: Y
Reasonable changes (if any)?:
Other?:

Thermoregulation:
Same as Ancestor?: Y
Does It Fit Habitat?: Y
Reasonable changes (if any)?:
Other?:

Reproduction:
Same as Ancestor?: Y
Does It Fit Habitat?: Y
Reasonable changes (if any)?:
Other?:

Description:
Length?: Short and to the point
Capitalized correctly?: Y
Replace/Split from ancestor?: Split
Other?:

Opinion: Approved

QUOTE (OviraptorFan @ Jan 11 2022, 06:00 PM)

These two species don't even live on the same continent

As usual:

QUOTE (OviraptorFan @ Jan 11 2022, 06:00 PM)

QUOTE (Papainmanis @ Jan 10 2022, 11:47 PM) Just a thought: What if you delay it by one generation? Colddigger's Shaggy Volleypom that is already approved for the coming generation would provide the perfect covering to justify the spotted pattern, the habitats don't currently intersect but with both megasporangium and microspores and the numerous flying seed dispersers, not to mention a shrog navy, it would be an almost unavoidable trip for it to make. Then in the next generation the Prancerhorn and a Barlowe volleypom can evolve together. These two species don't even live on the same continent

QUOTE (colddigger @ Jan 11 2022, 08:36 PM)

Regarding the expanding tab, I never see anything pop up when I click it, but when I quote it there looks to be stuff there. Is this a forum issue?

I'm not having the same trouble, could be a browser issue? I'm using chrome
edit: works on edge too

Just a thought: What if you delay it by one generation?

Colddigger's Shaggy Volleypom that is already approved for the coming generation would provide the perfect covering to justify the spotted pattern, the habitats don't currently intersect but with both megasporangium and microspores and the numerous flying seed dispersers, not to mention a shrog navy, it would be an almost unavoidable trip for it to make.


Then in the next generation the Prancerhorn and a Barlowe volleypom can evolve together.

Look how well they fit: