Only juveniles inhabit the tropics.

Kinda resembles a shroom, somewhat.

I like it, though I think the description should be a bit longer, but maybe that's just me?

Excellent, these are such bizarre, alien organisms.

What a beautiful blubbery boy.

I hope it's not too much, but should we consider reformatting the ecosystem page at the start of the next week? Sure, it'll take a bit longer, but it would likely make things much more organized.

A lovely red leviathan.

Terrorfang Hafgufa (Hafgufa dorite)
Creator: Nergali
Ancestor: Cruelfang Hafgufa
Habitat: Adult: North Jujubee Temperate Ocean (Sunlight Zone), Jujubee Ocean (Twilight Zone), Soma Temperate Coast, Oz Temperate Coast, Maineiac Temperate Coast; Juvenile: Jujubee Tropical Ocean (Sunlight Zone), South Jujubee Temperate Ocean (Sunlight Zone), Jlindy Tropical Coast, BigL Tropical Coast, King Tropical Coast, Clark Temperate Coast, Chum Tropical Coast, Elerd Temperate Coast, Wind Temperate Coast, Dass Temperate Coast, Hydro Tropical Coast
Size: 16.4 m long
Diet: Adult: Carnivore (Lurking Lyngbakr, Delving Lyngbakr, Viridimaw Lyngbakr, Umbrascale Lyngbakr, Nonessie, Plesican), Scavenger; Juvenile: (Tethyssie, Ocean Scorpodile, Caraclaw, Outtablue Scylarian, Flumpus, Aqueryn, Aabaalki, Seashrog), Scavenger
Reproduction: Sexual, Live Birth, Two Genders

Splitting from its ancestor, the Terrorfang Hafgufa has begun the process of taking to more tropical waters of the equator. Because large prey is not as common yearlong within these warmer locals, the species as a whole has shrunken in size in order to better exploit the various local species. While adults stick to more northern waters, their offspring tend to instead migrate southwards where similarly sized prey is much more common. While their ancestors were fairly solitary predators, this species is quite the opposite. Forming small packs of two to seven members - referred to as squads - they hunt down larger and smaller prey alike, swarming them as they tear bloody gashes into their flanks before pulling back to wait from afar. With enough time, these wounds will prove fatal as they lead to shock from both pain and blood loss, before inevitably causing the target to bleed out. Once this has occurred, they will approach the dead or dying target and begin to feast, gorging themselves until their bellies are full.

The Terrorfang Hafgufa has undergone several evolutionary adaptations, the most prominent of which is the evolution of a lunate tail structure. Such a design allows for greatly increased acceleration in the open water, which in turn allows this species to hunt prey much more effectively. While maneuverability can be an issue, it is less so due to the majority of their prey items being fairly large, bulky, and not particularly agile. This proves especially true for the immense species of Lyngbakrs that inhabit the sea of Sagan IV. Squads of Terrrorfang Hafgufa will use their speed and numbers in order to separate older, sicklier members of Lyngbakr pods so that they may hunt them without interference from the rest of their kin.

Mating occurs towards the end of summer, with the resulting pups - typically one to three in number - being born towards the start of spring. These juveniles are shown no parental care, and thus they eventually make their way south where there is a greater abundance of smaller prey for them to feast upon. As they are typically already two to three meters in length at birth, they are capable of hunting some of the larger prey items in region.

I don't think it's that absurd of a jump, as this sort of adaptation would be a useful one.

What a delightful species, and distinct from the other saucebacks with the evolution of eyes!

That's an awesome looking eye.

Yes, it was meant to be an adaptation to walking on tougher terrain. I'll add that to the description.

Oh, I know that, it's just that I've seen images of them piercing small prey with them. One example being the Foi-Devourer Sauceback.

Scalescooter (Scootypuffjr pineispellis)
Creator: Nergali
Ancestor: Shockscooter
Habitat: Adult: Soma Temperate Beach, Drake Chaparral, Drake Plains, Drake High Grassland; Juveniles: Soma Temperate Coast
Size: 8.4 cm long
Diet: Adult: Coprophagic; Juveniles: Planktivore
Reproduction: Sexual, Two Genders, Live Birth

Juvenile Shockscooters thrive in the shallow, warm waters that abound within the tide pools that dot the beaches of Ramul Island. When the time eventually comes and the cusp of maturity is upon them, they will leave these aquatic sanctuaries and take to the land. On occasionally, though, a particularly strong wave may drag a few away from these tiny pools. Most of these end up in the open ocean, where they swiftly perish. A few, however, carried on a current, will make their way across the straight to the larger Drake Island. In a new environment, rich in life and large fauna, the Shockscooters found themselves needing to adapt. While the potential for finding food had greatly increased, so too had the threat of predation.

The most prominent of these evolutionary adaptations, and the one for which they are named after, are their wooden scales. While many descendants of plents have evolved wooden armor, this adaptation has only ever been truly effective when dealing with other plents, as the material simply isn't hard or durable enough to deal with the stronger teeth of carpozoans and the like. To get around this, the Scalescooter has taken this defense down a different route. The scales are only loosely attached, and can be regrown quick quickly along with whatever portion of skin was torn off with them. As such, should a predator attempt to bite down on one of these creatures, all they will wind up with is a mouthful of wooden scales while the target of their hunger makes a speedy escape.

The scales also serve a secondary function. Due to their deep purple coloration, they resemble the needle-like leaves of Brickbark Ferine and Wafflebark Ferine. As such, Scalescooters can often hide amongst the fallen leaf litter that covers most of the southern part of Drake Island, free to gorge themselves upon the dung and pellets of other, larger fauna at their own pleasure.

Another prominent adaptation is their larger, padded feet. Because the local terrain is much rougher and littered with bits of potentially sharp debris, these feet allow them to move comfortably about. A single, delicate toe-like structure has formed. While it lacks bone, it is packed with sensory cells, allowing the Scalescooter to determine if what it is walking upon is potentially dangerous, thus helping them to avoid damage. This is useful, as cuts and scrapes can give rise to infections, which in turn can lead to sickness, crippling, and/or death. Avoiding this is thus preferable, as one would expect.

While the Scalescooters tend to live further inland, they will return to the beach once a year towards the end of summer, just like their ancestors did. During this time males and females will attempt to communicate with one another, sparking little jolts of electricity between their spines, in order to find a suitable mate. Once they have done so, they will then find a nearby secluded tide pool to reproduce within. The females will go first, wading in and laying their eggs, after which the males will follow and begin to fertilize them. Following this, both parents will show no further care to the offspring and will wander off into the forested plains. They no longer die after mating, and can instead potentially mate up to three or four more times, should they manage to avoid predation and instead die at the ripe old of five years. Because of this, corpses are no longer left to potentially pollute the waters their offspring will hatch in, which also helps to remove a tasty meal few scavengers would ignore.

I always figured that the long tongue must have been retained in order to remove prey off their tusks. Otherwise they might have to resort to scrapping them on rocks or flora to remove them, which might damage the tusks.

I think the Phanadon lives near there, in the South Darwin Tropical Woodland, if you need any suggestions for a large organism.

And I'll fix the size.

Kinda reminds me of a squid. Must be the tentacles.

I like it.

A glorious new sky-flora.

Oh, I like the depth perception with this one, makes it look likes it's popping out of the page.

These must have a ridiculously fast metabolism to be able to raise a 100 or so joeys at a time. I presume that, based on the comment that it must constantly eat, that it consumes its own weight in food several times a day?

OH! I really like the color patterns on these, as well as the fact it looks like they have a tiny knife.

Huzzah for the aeroplankton!

Umbral Sphinx (Subnixiflora noctevenandi)
Creator: Nergali
Ancestor: Royal Sphinx
Habitat: Dixon Tropical Woodland, Dixon Tropical Rainforest, Dixon Temperate Rainforest, West Darwin Tropical Rainforest, South Darwin Tropical Woodland
Size: 20 cm long
Diet: Omnivore ([[Minikruggs]], [[Vermees]], [[Dartirs]], [[Sapworms]], [[Xenobees]], [[Xenowasps]], [[Silkruggs]], [[Neuks]], [[Verdiundi]], [[Carnofern Flugwurm]], [[Carnossamer]] fruit, [[Tropical Gecoba Tree]] fruit, [[Berry Arbourshroom]] berries, [[Frayedspikes]] fruit)
Reproduction: Sexual, Two Genders, Live Birth

Splitting from its ancestor, the '''Umbral Sphinx''' has spread throughout the forests that thrive along the coastlines of Dixon and Darwin, and has itself come to thrive in these tropical regions. Now crepuscular by nature, they are most active around the times of dawn and dusk, utilizing these brief moments of twilight in order to go out and search for food. As most current predators in these forests aren't active during these times, the Umbral Sphinxes have little to fear as they gorge themselves on a variety of fruits and small creatures. When not out hunting, they will retreat to small burrows and hollows so that they may rest in relative safety.

Like their ancestor, the males possess a notable crest which they use to signify their health and strength to both potential challengers and mates. However, unlike the [[Royal Sphinx]], both genders are fairly colorful, with the only real distinction being the crest. While they are still monogamous in nature, they will often share their nests with other mated pairs. Because of this increase in regards to their social nature, they now produce a wider range of pips and squeaks from their tail-nostrils, even utilizing the ring of fleshy bits to help alter the sound to a degree by contracting and relaxing them. Now the woodlands and rainforests of Darwin and Dixon are awash in a chorus of chirps each dawn and dusk.

Umbral Sphinxes can swim, and are willing to migrate across small rivers ands streams in order to find new nesting grounds. Being fairly rapid breeders, this can occur quite frequently.

First you get the chainswarmers, then you get the chainmail, then you wind up with chain emails! Joking aside, I presume this will be like a siphonophore in several ways?

Such a fuzzy "rat-bird". The scissor-jaws are a neat idea.