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An idea of an aquatic open-sea predator for my exobiology project Temere.
It is not completely canonical yet, but that's how my projects go so in future this critter will probably be changed a bit.

As of now, the animal doesn't have a latin name. None of the taxa of Temere's life does, so this might be a challenge for you guys reading this, if you have an idea for a fitting name, I'm all in!
It's origin can be found here>
www.deviantart.com/macheemi/ar…

This animal is an active predator hunting smaller swimming creatures and catching them with its elongated pair of secondary beak-like jaws. The smaller primary and tertiary ones are used for processing prey to smaller, edible pieces.
All of the jaw pieces evolved from basket-like structures and bristles, which it's ancestors used for filterfeeding on plankton. The bristles are still present on the inside of the animal's digestive system, where they process the food further and extract nutrients from it.

It has a pair of composite eyes, on the sides of the head and a series of sensory organs under the eyes detecting movement, changes in water composition and provide smell.

It also has a pair of openings through which water passes to animal's internal gills, exiting it near the anus through four pairs of openings.

On the very top of the head there is a pair of retractable genitalia. The animals copulation looks like two individuals scratching foreheads against each other. The females carry their eggs in a special cavity behind the genitalia on their backs, where the hatchlings experience their larval stage, giving birth to 1-3 young resembling the adults, just much smaller in size.

The animal has four tail fins, which it can move to a certain degree, modifying it's way of swimming . Most of the times it's performing a up and down motion like Earth's dolphins.

Hope you will like it!

(c)2019 MacheeMi

Description
An idea of an aquatic open-sea predator for my exobiology project Temere.
It is not completely canonical yet, but that's how my projects go so in future this critter will probably be changed a bit.

As of now, the animal doesn't have a latin name. None of the taxa of Temere's life does, so this might be a challenge for you guys reading this, if you have an idea for a fitting name, I'm all in!
It's origin can be found here>
www.deviantart.com/macheemi/ar…

This animal is an active predator hunting smaller swimming creatures and catching them with its elongated pair of secondary beak-like jaws. The smaller primary and tertiary ones are used for processing prey to smaller, edible pieces.
All of the jaw pieces evolved from basket-like structures and bristles, which it's ancestors used for filterfeeding on plankton. The bristles are still present on the inside of the animal's digestive system, where they process the food further and extract nutrients from it.

It has a pair of composite eyes, on the sides of the head and a series of sensory organs under the eyes detecting movement, changes in water composition and provide smell.

It also has a pair of openings through which water passes to animal's internal gills, exiting it near the anus through four pairs of openings.

On the very top of the head there is a pair of retractable genitalia. The animals copulation looks like two individuals scratching foreheads against each other. The females carry their eggs in a special cavity behind the genitalia on their backs, where the hatchlings experience their larval stage, giving birth to 1-3 young resembling the adults, just much smaller in size.

The animal has four tail fins, which it can move to a certain degree, modifying it's way of swimming . Most of the times it's performing a up and down motion like Earth's dolphins.

Hope you will like it!

(c)2019 MacheeMi