Hard-Shelled Toothy
| Hard-Shelled Toothy | ||
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| (Thorakismenisaura crya) | ||
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| Information | ||
| Creator | renichit Other | |
| Week/Generation | 27/167 | |
| Habitat | Drake Highvelt, Drake Alpine, Drake Rocky, Drake Polar Scrub, Drake Prairie | |
| Size | 45 cm Long, 20 cm Tall | |
| Primary Mobility | Hexapod, Erect Legs | |
| Support | Exoskeleton (chitin), Endoskeleton (chitin). | |
| Diet | Omnivore (Frostmelter bark, Crysfortress Shell, Plowskunik, Glittersprout, Sapshrooms, Supershrooms, Thorny Hedgelog, Pandocrystal roots, Vesuvianite Tree roots, Pagoda Crystal roots, Arid Ferine roots, Forest Venomerald roots, Greater Lahn, Cryobowls fruit, Larands, Marbleflora, Pioneeroots, Sunstalks, Inzcrek, Croriss, Creab Walker, Creab Shell, Plowskunik, Crysfortress Walker, Tunnelglutt Cadoverm, Uksor) | |
| Respiration | Active (microlungs). | |
| Thermoregulation | Endotherm (setae). | |
| Reproduction | Sexual Hermaphrodites, Lay Eggs in a Burrow | |
| Taxonomy | ||
| Domain Kingdom Subkingdom Phylum Clade Superclass Class Order Superfamily Family Subfamily Genus Species | Eukaryota Binucleozoa Symbiovermes (info) Thoracocephalia Coluripoda Ossicancer Saurovermes (info) Glutitextilisauria Boviherpetoidea Boviherpetidae Boviherpetinae Thorakismenisaura Thorakismenisaura crya | |
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The boviherpetids (except the secretive lizarduiker) during their history have developed a mostly herbivorous diet (although in some species scavenging was not excluded) which consisted of fruits, roots, leaves or the stems of the flora. The marmokerd (Marmotasaura marmota), the smallest descendant of the grazing gossalizard (Boviherpeton pascor), is a small herbivore that lives in temperate and cold areas and continues the herbivorous style of its relatives. Over a few million years, a group of marmokerds separated from the base lineage and adapted to eating meat, to give it extra protein nutrition. The hard-shelled toothy descends from the latter, a small omnivore that lives in some parts of drake.
The hard-shelled toothy retains some things from the marmokerd, such as its brown hair, its chitin shell, and its sociable behavior, although these things changed a bit. Some changes are that its upper hair has hardened, forming moving plates similar to those of a tenrec that produce a squeaky sound that is used for intraspecific communication. His hair expanded to give him more warmth in the cold northern areas and his shell became smaller, modifying his head in the process to make it flat, with the front eyes looking forward and the rear eyes looking to the sides. The teeth expanded and hardened, this to be able to better bite into their hard-shelled prey. The legs were differentiated in different ways, the rear ones (A) became longer for running, the middle ones (B) became more robust for support and the front ones © only became slightly longer.
The arms also lengthened and their "hands" had a change of direction in the lower claws that now look upward, the latter are used as "hands" that grab food.
Parental behavior is a little different compared to that of their ancestor, since families create a set of small burrows approximately 30 cm long through which eggs and food are deposited.
Hard-shelled toothies have perfected their visual communication and, in fact, gesture-like movements have appeared, such as a "blinking" system based on a specific number of times or a sudden change in pupil size which serves to communicate danger. or bad mood. Regarding their moving plates, hard-shelled toothies have developed a simple auditory system that is located between their neck and head and that perceives from 35 Hz to 123 Hz. With this, hard-shelled toothy can hear sounds that their colleagues emit. Now, speaking of the plates themselves, they move with carefully moved wobbles at the necessary moments. The plates are used more to attract a partner or to scare/intimidate predators. The chances of surviving a predator are variable for hard-shelled toothies, since some predators can be skittish but others would not hesitate to eat one, especially if it attracts them with its sounds.
These, as already said, are omnivores, meaning they feed on everything they find, although flora and small fauna. The latter give them protein and fat support, which gives more strengthening to their structures and organs. Some hard-shelled toothy form pods, which help each other and gather food for their burrows.
Hard-shelled toothies are usually found with their ancestors, who if disturbed or attacked are a danger, so hard-shelled toothfish rarely want to get into conflict, unless it is in a pack.