Hookmouth Oropede

The hookmouthed oropede split from its ancestor and now actually feeds on them. It is an amphibious species, able to live in the water and survive on land for a certain amount of time by lowering the rate that its blood is pumped through its body, thus lowering the amount of oxygen removed from the blood, but this makes the fauna sluggish. Moving on land is also difficult due to the size of its legs compared to its body, so the preferred environment is in the water. Hookmouth oropedes hunt rustlickers mostly to get to the contents of their stomachs, which is digested rustballs. It can run forward, backward, and to its sides with relative ease. The body of the hookmouth oropede is curved upward, this makes it easier to attack prey and defend from predators. Its "nose" has become large and is placed above the organism to pick up scents from all directions. The outer legs have been lifted and specialize as mouths, the lower "toes" or "jaws" have enlarged and curved to form sharp metal hooks used for catching and disemboweling its prey. Its middle legs have specialized for the role of being legs and no longer function as mouths. The eyes of the hookmouth oropede have been risen to give better vision of its surroundings, they are also very sensitive to movement, and the lifeform will strike at anything smaller than it that moves, sometimes even things that are bigger than them.