It would still help to be a little more specific about how it glides over surfaces, since there are multiple physiological ways to do so.

I like the tail detail, the hairy tail tufts, and how traces of texture from the paper scanning suggest fur.

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"This came in the form of the species commonly becoming nurse logs, where the parent dies and sapling goth trees sprout off of the trunk and extract the nutrients for their own development."

That's not quite how nurse logs work. The "saplings" are described as if they're offshoots from the rootstock, and only growth from the upper stem died. Do you mean to say they can grow on well-rotted wood encrusted with moss-equivalents, including that of mature individuals of their own kind?

Do any plants outright make small stems to shed excess salt? Don't they usually have special salt glands or shed salt through leaves?

"decaying organic matter that makes up the rafts" Wouldn't the Marine Tamows replace wood that had become significantly rotten, or make new rafts? I figure rotten wood would not be seaworthy enough for them. Admittedly, they are good at swimming, so there wouldn't be too much of an evolutionary incentive to make perfectly seaworthy crafts.

There should have been an update to this page once the picture was added: then I could have responded faster.

"as a means of cultivating future stocks of building materials." I doubt the Shrews can plan for the future so far ahead. Squirrels don't bury acorns to make oak trees later.

"vurtually identical" Virtually.

I'll go over the rest of it tomorrow.

All those sandbars and shoals from former high-elevation areas of Barlowe being significant enough to make footholds for trees seems so geographically notable as to justify a landmark, if a very big one, and at least for the continuous loop between Barlowe, Ovi, and Solipimr. It's one thing to say something like, "clumps of driftwood and broken-down Seashrog nests occasionally pass though the ocean" and another to make the Driftwood Islands.

It's still unclear how big the range of the Equabora would be; a tree living in the coastal waters themselves is exceptional. Are you sure it is sufficiently well-adapted to live across the Equabora's entire provisional range? Could it withstand coastal storms?

What sort of fauna spread its spores? Given its range, it would be easiest to specify "small [members of specified family or genus]" or "[genus group names] and small non-genus relatives".

Probably the easiest way to clean this up would be using GIMP, using the color selector, fine-tuning it to only the shade of blue of the background lines, and then using the eraser in a big size over it, or using the paint bucket, set to white. Then the image could be trimmed, desaturated (to make the lineart black) and then filled in with color. If the lineart was continuous and thick, the coloring could be done quickly using the paint buckets, but, if not, you could go a less convenient route and color within the lines using the paintbrush tool.

...at least, that's how I would do it, if I wanted to do it quickly. Usually, sketches submitted as part of Works-In-Progress submissions are farther along, but this is still functional.

"Sticky Spores carried by Fauna." should not have a period at the end.
I can provide more comments once this submission is more developed.

It doesn't list the Grazing Gossalizard in its diet list.

I wonder what the steps are for eyes getting arranged into a triangle formation specifically because of the utility of a strong jaw...how would the eyes move over time? I suppose it's hard to tell without knowing the underlying soft tissue and developmental patterns.

I like the lineart and coloration.

Instead of using "certain part", why not use "narrowest part", so it can fit its mouth around the eggs?

"certain occasions" What sorts of occasions? Did you mean to say "occasionally"?

"these populations giving rise" Did you mean: "these populations gave rise"?

"their face" Their faces? Its face?

"certain part" Which part?

"Eggslurping sorite's" That's sorites, plural.

"then frees up the eggslurping sorite’s arms to then move around a carpozoan’s egg." Using "then" twice in the same sentence is awkward.

" the eggslurping sorite still supplements their diet" That's a mismatch between number and pronoun.

"ancestors tongue licking" that should be: "ancestors' tongue-licking". I think it would be better described as "tongue-rasping", rather than "licking".

There are a few stray white pixels around the nose in the second image.

I like the extra artwork.

I prefer to comment on organisms once they are complete, and this one doesn't have an image yet. I'll go over it more thoroughly once an image is added.

Is it possible for it to "redevelop" teeth on its lower jaw?

The Smirking Soriparasite has more than two habitat types: It has temperate, tropical, and mountain habitat types. Given there is no wildcard protocol under the rules for the Alpha timeline, you'll have to reduce its habitat range.
"Upperjaw" should be two words.
" Smirking Soriparasite to twist their neck" That doesn't make grammatical sense. I recommend "its neck".
", their anesthetic compounds in its saliva" That's pronoun confusion.
"who’s" should be "whose".
"smirking soriparasites may also come" The capitalization is inconsistent here.
I like the patterning and its shrink-wrapped, dinosaur-like look.

Is it even possible for a beach-dwelling tree to grow to 100 meters? Coconuts grow up to 30 meters tall. The tallest Australian pine tree (Casuarina equisetifolia) specimen on Turtle Beach, Florida, is 27.80 meters tall. (https://www.monumentaltrees.com/en/heightrecords/usa/florida/). Date palms, which seem capable of living on the beach, typically grow to 21-23 meters tall. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_palm) The Mangrove forests of Suriname, which seem especially tall for mangroves, reach 20-25 meters tall.

Unless it can be justified, I recommend either drastically reducing the size, or limiting it to swamps and/or rainforests.

I don't think trees grow that big grow in marshes...marshes and swamps are different, unless it's just a case of Sagan 4 Alpha timeline terminology being weird.

It is better, although, given there are multiple ways for a microbe to "glide", it would help to elaborate somewhat. Gliding motility is poorly understood, judging by some quick research, so it would help to vaguely say it "moves by gliding over surfaces, similarly to [sample bacterium species]" or "it glides with the aid of a 'carpet' of slime it secretes."

I like the fur detail, colors and shading, variety of poses, the blank-faced menace of the Lampredates, and whatever bug dance that blue Puckbug is doing.

If that blue orb is the moon...then the bright blue reflectiveness on the nomster doesn't look right. It's reflecting as if it has shiny, reflective skin next to a blue lightbulb a few feet away. The moon is much farther away.

Hurray, having red, bio-luminescent seeds turned out very handy.

Ooh, explosive glassy massive alien cacti.
Theoretically, if an organism or organisms caused Obsiditrees to cast less shade (say, half-shade) in a few parts of Barlowe and Hydro areas, would it be acceptable to mention in the description that allowed Blastrees to colonize the area, if perhaps at an "uncommon" or "rare" designation? Or are these full-sun specialists that couldn't survive at all in habitats dominated by huge, sunlight-blocking Obsiditrees?

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"free loaders." Freeloaders. "secret a foul-smelling" Secrete a foul-smelling.

As you can see from the example of "freeloaders", I was simply capitalizing the start of a sentence: the correction. You don't need to capitalize "secrete" in your sentence.

"as which resemble the" I suggest, "to the degree it resembles the". I don't know how to parse "as which" in this context.

The description feels a little too short. Adding more detail on how they interact with other organisms, such as by being gut symbiotes, could make it feel more complete. How do they swim?

It seems some habitats on the Week 4 habitat list (on Beta) are called "Shrub" and others are called "Scrub". Wikipedia's page on "Shrubland" suggests "Shrubland" and "Scrubland" are synonyms. The habitat listings in the rules here use the word "Scrub", but not "Shrub". Is it a typo to use "Shrub" when "Scrub" is meant?

I now have a version of the collapsible template up on my user page. I used Dorite Subtropical Ocean as a sample.

It would be most typical of real-life organism to say the pigments are in the skin, not the "tissues" in general, but given there are a handful of wild animals with weirdly-colored tissue (20% of lingcods have blue-green flesh), you can give it anthocyanin in its body tissues but still have it be plausible. It would be nothing more than a byproduct of a useful adaptation, or a genetic quirk.

I like the art, description, and lifestyle. I especially like how it has two illustrations.
"free loaders." Freeloaders.
"secret a foul-smelling" Secrete a foul-smelling.
" grown larger" There should be a period at the end.
"An infilt pewpa carrying eggs inside of them" I suggest "carrying eggs", without a pronoun. While neither "himself" or "herself" are appropriate because these are hermaphrodites, "itself" is perfectly acceptable for fauna.
"which is an attempt to mimic the forelimbs" Evolution is not intentional, but the whole paragraph's phrasing suggests such. if it is fairly intelligent for its size and number of neurons, like a Portia spider, and it has deliberative imitative behaviors, you can suggest intention in the manner it uses its "disguise".

"might they transform" is oddly poetic. It's unusual positioning. I recommend "they might transform".
"search of resourced" Resources.
Since the description is too big, I recommend splitting it into subheadings.

It seems this is a work in progress. Since it's a big description, I'll come back later for more feedback.

I recommend using GIMP to enhance contrast, to make darker, more distinct lines. Unless these organisms are transparent and against a very uniform or stylized background of purple/purplish pink flora, I recommend coloring within the lines with their true coloration. That is best done after you darken the lines, because then you can use the paint bucket tool.

The front claws look drastically different from its ancestor's, if they're drawn at all. I recommend drawing on the front claws, or, if they have fused, thick, horse-like toenails they walk on, making that more clear in the art.

I'm not sure how plausible it is they would walk on extensions of their elbows.