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Malicious-Monkey — An Ensemble of Ensiferophidians
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Ensiferophidians ("sword-bearing snakes") are a group of monodonts that includes archers and lancers. You can read more about monodonts and the individual species below:Monodonts: Anatomy
Monodont Digestion
Phylogeny of Monodonts
Archersnakes
Lancers
Dagrites
Aquatic Archers
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It's always great to see an assemblage of representatives of a speculative clade! People often forget that even organisms that by many accounts may not qualify as flashy or charismatic hold just as much importance from an evolutionary and ecological stand point as more popular animals. Even on other worlds we should not turn a blind eye from small 'insects' and 'worms'.
I particularly like the diversity of life styles these animals exhibit.
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Agreed. Just because you might need a magnifying glass to see the details doesn't make insects and worms any less important, or even less charismatic. Hell, beetles are some of the flashiest animals Earth has to offer and yet all people will talk about are pandas and tigers.
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I personally find building analogues to insects some of the most challenging feats in speculative biology. It's something I feel few have really been able to pull off admirably ("Nereus" comes to mind).
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One thing that makes insect analogues difficult is that insects themselves are so sophisticated, so ubiquitous, that anything we come up with will probably be inferior. In a world without insects or something equally successful, their niches would have to be filled by species from many clades, not just one. Otherwise we'll probably end up with a group that's basically a copy of insects because nobody else can quite compete.
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