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Dragonthunders — Not-So-Silver Swimmers
Published: 2018-06-11 19:12:42 +0000 UTC; Views: 11017; Favourites: 237; Downloads: 27
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Here some ideas of other varieties of "Silverswimmers" being more varied in color and form, being based on the larvae of crustaceans as well some planktonic forms.Up: Small pelagic "Zoeamorph", being a descendant of a Crab larvae, this neotenic form has a round tree pointed head with a long dorsal spine that acts as a fin, with quite prominent eyes on the sides, several small legs that filter the water, and two main ones that are for swimming, with a rigid tail that has a fluke of filaments.
Below left: a kind of shallow water dweller, the "Anntennopterid", a high derived Water Flea-like form which swim using its pretty efficient bushy antennae, and that has developed arms like limbs to cling to or grab.
Below rigth: The Bethonic and detritivorous "Nauplioid", its delta shape helps it to move easily in the background, in conjunction with its various ventral legs and other 3 lateral pairs more suitable for swimming
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Awesome! Reminds me of those drawings of bizarre creatures in books about early Paleozoic period.
But it seems a little off for the Anntennopterid to inhabit shallow waters imo. However I could certainly see them slowly flapping their "feathers" and plucking marine snow particles with their claws in bathypelagial zone
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Thank you.
Yeah you're right on it, at first I had thought of adding the detail of pelagic forms that used their legs together but I dismissed it because of the possibility that other pelagic forms could be better prepared for life in those regions and therefore have already taken those places, limiting the Anntennopterids to shallow waters.
I think it could be possible for some specialized forms or a little radiation to work.
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