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Description
Shovelnoses are big (to 3 meters long), fresh water fish what swimwalks on the bottom of Eurasiafricans rivers and lakes 120 millions years in the future. It hunts on creatures buried in mud (mainly crustaceans and mollusks), which it detects using electro receptors in its large shovel like upper lip.
Shovelnoses are one of the spiderfish species and are descendants of Melanochromis . Of course they are cognate to land Octodactylopods. Spiderfishes are cichlids very specialized to live on the bottom of water basins. “Fingers” in their pelvic fins are transformed into eight spider like legs, what they use to walk , what is their primary propulsion. They have no gas bladder and they can’t really swim on long distances. They swim like other fishes only when they must quickly speed up. Of course like all their ancestors, Malawi lake cichlids, spiderfishes are mouth brooders.

When Africa was teared apart in the rift valley, great African lakes merged with Indian Ocean. Most endemic cichlids died off, but some types accommodated to sea water and transformed into sea fishes. Some of them recolonised rivers after millions years . Spiderfishes primary evolved in fast streams, where they developed their finger – limbs. But there quickly appeared species accommodated also to rivers and lakes. Like shovelnoses. And also some species step out of water and colonized lands, turning into Octodactylopods. Only non tetrapods land vertebrates.

Description
Shovelnoses are big (to 3 meters long), fresh water fish what swimwalks on the bottom of Eurasiafricans rivers and lakes 120 millions years in the future. It hunts on creatures buried in mud (mainly crustaceans and mollusks), which it detects using electro receptors in its large shovel like upper lip.
Shovelnoses are one of the spiderfish species and are descendants of Melanochromis . Of course they are cognate to land Octodactylopods. Spiderfishes are cichlids very specialized to live on the bottom of water basins. “Fingers” in their pelvic fins are transformed into eight spider like legs, what they use to walk , what is their primary propulsion. They have no gas bladder and they can’t really swim on long distances. They swim like other fishes only when they must quickly speed up. Of course like all their ancestors, Malawi lake cichlids, spiderfishes are mouth brooders.

When Africa was teared apart in the rift valley, great African lakes merged with Indian Ocean. Most endemic cichlids died off, but some types accommodated to sea water and transformed into sea fishes. Some of them recolonised rivers after millions years . Spiderfishes primary evolved in fast streams, where they developed their finger – limbs. But there quickly appeared species accommodated also to rivers and lakes. Like shovelnoses. And also some species step out of water and colonized lands, turning into Octodactylopods. Only non tetrapods land vertebrates.