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Post species or landmark ideas for Week 26.

Post your creature ideas here if you cannot draw, have broken scanner or whatever is stopping you from posting normally. People who CAN draw can look here and maybe even use your idea for their species. Also if you can draw and just have too many ideas and not enough time to draw them. This will give those with drawing block some inspiration as well.
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Hi! I'm Cynognathus823 on the Discord and I just joined! So, Hi! Looks like I'm the first registered user!

Here's what I still remember!

Neoshrew evos

• Tropical evo with a large inflatable nose used for making loud calls
• Sailback Shrew
• Poisonous Shrew that specializes in eating Snotflora
• Tail-Hopping Shrew
• A fat-tailed shrew
• "Regenerashrew" - A Shrew that can regenerate its lost tail and parts of its body ala Spiny Mouse
• Larger herbivorous descendants called "Guangus"

Robust and Gracile Pinyuks

A lineage of aerial black flora descended from the droopgeas. This was going to be my first submission, but the wiki went down before I was able to finish it.

A transparent, huge-eyed Midnight zone pumpgill species.

Minikrugg speciation:
*Parasitic, flea-like descendant group.
*Group that has developed scale-insect/aphid like tendencies.
*Eusocial genus group?
*Predatory group, like assassin bugs - with fearsome liquivorous probosces.
*Water-bug like descendants?

Larger, solitary tyrannosaur-like descendants of the Signaltails adapted to eat Saishells/Sailmails with crushing jaws to break the shell.

Species of Sailshell that evolved a Shunosaurus-like tail to defend against said descendant(s).

Plains-dwelling Sailshell descendant, larger and with longer neck for grazing. Go Full Sauropod!

Semiaquatic Sailshell species, like a Mokele-Mbembe/hippopotamus or old "Bronto"-style reconstructions of sauropods.

Twinkoral species which grows on the jaws of a large sea creature like a Hafgufa, creating a small mini-reef on the side.

Tree lineage that develops a symbiotic relationship with a group of minikruggs, similar to myrmecophyte flora on Earth.

Species of crystal tree with sharp, poisonous roots that kill anything that step on them, providing fertilizer for the tree.

Some ideas for Fermi Island:

- A desert-dwelling species of miniswarmer that hibernates throughout most of the year in a mucous-sac. Once the rains come, they awaken in the desert pools, whereupon they feast, mate, and reproduce. The young then must rapidly mature and bury themselves before the waters dry up.

- A polyfee-plague species that has begun to affect the thornbacks. Infesting cryobowls, they feed upon the larval thornbacks, not killing them but leaving them weak and undersized. They are transported between cryobowls by latching onto adult thornbacks as they come to reproduce.

- A supershroom species that forms a symbiotic relationship with flashcells or other photosynthesizing microbes. The supershroom gathers up nutrients and water for the 'algae', and the 'algae' produces excess sugars for the supershroom.

- Predatory cloudswarmer species.
- Armadillo-like thornback.
- Polar skimsnapper split that inhabits the island, hunting dartirs, vermees, and young thornbacks.
- Scavenging swift hookphlyer split that takes up a niche similar to vultures.
- Fiddler crab-like split of the fan bloister that lives on the beaches.
- Barnacle-like split of the mini pukai that infest the beaches.

Hey WereCynognathus, you going to join this gen? There's still a few spots left in Gen 161

QUOTE (MNIDJM @ Apr 3 2020, 09:37 AM)

Hey WereCynognathus, you going to join this gen? There's still a few spots left in Gen 161

I'm working on my first submission. Main difficulty is getting overwhelmed and procrastination/fear of showing my terrible drawings.

Don't worry about that too much, this was my first submission:

I know I'm already making a lot of shrews this gen, but how about some new shrews inspired by actual shrews? Actual shrews are objectively more alien than any Sagan 4 shrew.

This thread is neglected. Here's a ton of ideas I posted on the discord that have not been used:

• Azelak shrew - a shrew that's just like an azelak
• Miniaturization of Fermi megafauna due to the shrinking landmass
• Phlyer flora
• Shrews inspired by more derived / less cute mammals
• Tons of genus groups descended from the eusocial nodent branch, they make great ants
• Long slinky shrews that look like genets
• Plant that poisons the ground when burned, killing (but not extincting) burncumference and allowing its offspring first access to the cleared land
• Saucebacks with patterns inspired by ground birds
• More brightly colored jewel-eyed saucebacks
• semi-aquatic eyed saucebacks that look like loons
• more endoparasitic fauna
• endoparasitic soriparasite
• "Shroll", a shrog with a green face that lives under a nest that resembles a bridge across a river
• ghara on a short-snouted critter
• advanced diving shrog that hunts in the twilight zone and uses a tether to not get lost (either using sinews from prey or gaining string independently of twineshrog)
• Shrews with air sacs and hollow bones (as they don't have the restraints that mammals have)
• Shrews in places where there should not be shrews, like underwater
• Some kind of eyed sauceback with a literal handlebar mustache made of feathers
• More canopy-dwellers in forests
• Shrog that moves inland and becomes an herbivore; much like the panda of Earth, it manages to maintain a diet which is technically still protein-based and is able to retain its intelligence as a result. Maybe it could be eating crystal flora, those are relatively easy to digest and are packed with protein.
• Handed bone-eater that just snaps bones over its knee and eats the marrow
• Wildcards with subspecies that do this
• Replacements for every single snapper with an inexplicable fish-like tadpole under justification that it's a huge waste of energy and having some adult traits is way, way more efficient.
• More stuff with manes
• LGBT representation on the level Beta has
• More organisms that make use of the tundra wetlands created by snowmelt, geese do this
• we need more organisms with funny proportions (like Canada lynx and Tibetan fox)
• bashercoat evo that gets even fluffier
• A smaller "lord" or "knight" signaltail replacing the baron signaltail on ramul island
• super tall gossalizard which has sclerites on its legs that in turn make it take less energy to pump blood to their heads (as the skin in the legs will not stretch out to let blood sink into them)
• shrew saucebacks, but from other sauceback groups like waxfaces and loafshells
• pirate waxface evo that gives up its pirating ways and joins forces with a new species of shrog, using its wax to improve nest waterproofing

I have vague ideas for some of these, but it would likely be a long time before I got to them, if I got to them.

*Pirate Waxface evo which becomes a herder of smaller fauna, possibly Gentonnas. (EDIT: done: Hypnotizer Waxface)
*Pirate Waxface which eats captive Twineshrogs in harems
*Pirate Waxface descendant with "neck-thumbs" (a la the panda's thumb) which makes it somewhat easier to handle tools (EDIT: done: Hypnotizer Waxface)
*Bloodsucking Xenobees and/or Xenowasps
*Hemoswarmer descendant with a greater selection of fauna with blood to drink
*Disease-spreading ectoparasitic insectoids
*Plent with an unusual blood color
*Marine Woollycoat descendant with woodpecker-esque tongue
*An auk/puffin-like Marine Woollycoat
*Diseases and parasites for various genus groups
*More allelopathic flora
*Hallucinogenic flora, possibly derived from the Hallucrastrum
*Something else zebra-striped, but for good reason this time

I'm not sure if the harem-eating waxface is feasible. Harems are only utilized by a small subset of the twineshrog population and are not a heritable practice, so even if the male doesn't fiercely defend his harem well enough, the practice could still fall out of favor for a time long enough to cause a population crash or outright extinction of the predator.

My vague idea of a "Woodsman Waxface" which ate captive female Twineshrogs only rarely ate them. Most of the time, it lived like a coyote. However, "Pirate Waxface descendant which lives like a coyote" or "Pirate Waxface descendant which lives like a coyote and occasionally eats captive female Twingshrogs" were either too bland or too specific for a Submission Ideas post. I'd describe a porcupine in the same way here as "herbivore which eats bones." Porcupines do, in fact, eat bones, but it's very different from how hyenas eat bones and it's not their sole diet or most obvious, distinctive trait. It's simply something interesting to work with.