Ovilaro

The ovilaro split from an ancestor and took to a life of consuming the many eggs that float haphazardly throughout the Dixon-Darwin-Vivus water table. Their tail fin has extended across their backs, forming a dorsal fin that helps stabilize the ovilaro while swimming in the water column. Their tail is now forked, which in combination with its subcarangiform mode of swimming allows it to move with greater efficiency than its ancestors and cousins. This is particularly important because of its largely pelagic lifestyle, in which it searches the water column for the free-floating eggs of various water table organisms. Their eyes have atrophied and are hardly functional due to them largely abandoning scavenging. However, they will still sometimes scavenge the corpses of species that the now assimilated flashstring cannot infect. This occurs most when their main food source of eggs is lacking. With the water column no longer a safe place to lay their eggs, the ovilaro has switched to laying their eggs on the cave ceiling, which is a place ovilaros rarely venture to due to the low egg density. However, this region of the water table is suitable for the eggs and fry, with the eggs using it as a safe place and the fry using it as a site to filter feed before switching to ovivory and swimming into the lower reaches of the water table.