Panoplovita

For this group of dispeculates, the basal condition is as an aquatic forager, with eight reduced limbs and solid armour.

Panoplovitans are the most recent group of dispeculates of all, having first evolved after gomphiobians, ambulospeculids and celernantids, and benefiting from the extinction events to later proliferate in the absence of competition. Most panoplovitans are filter feeders or herbivores, though some carnivorous and omnivorous species exist. They are spread across all oceans and even found in freshwater. Giant filter feeding baleen-like panoplovitans have evolved independently various different times, and produced the largest dispeculates in existence. Terrestrial panoplovitans have also been a recent evolution. Although there were a few that developed terrestriality independently, there is one major clade of terrestrial panoplovitans, spread across all continents, except Terra Septentrionis. They are pretty diverse and abundant, all being either herbivores, omnivores, filter feeders, and at least one species feeds exclusively on products released by symbiotic photosynthetic organisms. Their abundance is patchy due to their recent evolution, and therefore competition with other groups of older terrestrial dispeculates. Flying panoplovitans are also not a common sight. One species is an aquatic-based flier, while others are fully terrestrial and are closely related to the main land-dwelling radiation, a group of moth-like sanguivores isolated in regions closer to the poles to avoid competition from other more abundant flying dispeculates.

## Classification

* Ligonemembrata
	+ Clava
		- **Comederemembrata** (Comederemembratans are one of the oldest extant clades of panoplovitans, likely the oldest. They have originated in the Accomodatian. They are consisted by largely aquatic panoplovitans, that have, through atavism or neotenic proccesses, increased the number of legs, from their typical number of eight. They prefer living in colder waters. Comedere lignum draco is a marine dweller living in the shallow seas around Terra Septentrionis. Clavus deambulatino membratum is much more derived being able to crawl onto land with its many limbs, connected by membrane, like a lungfish. Comederemembratans are viviparous.)
		- **Molasimilia** (Molasimilians are related to comederemembratans, and have split from them in the Accomodatian. Molasimilians themselves evolved in the early Variagene. They are found everywhere in the southern hemisphere and in the northern hemisphere, except the northern polar oceans. Molasimilis panoplovita lives in the cold Virtuan seas. Pluteustega lives in the equatorial reefs and temperate waters of the entire world. The related spadenosed wumbus is found everywhere in the southern hemisphere, both in marine and in freshwater regions. Molasimilians are viviparous.)
	+ Manicatransita
		- **Macropanoplia** (Macropanoplians are basal manticatitanians, having diverged from the wallacicolossians in the late Accomodatian. They are only represented by Macropanoplus transitus, a 30 meter long whale-like filter feeder, found just in Vadum Mare and in the ocean waters surrounding Media Insula. Macropanoplians are ovoviviparous.)
		- Wallacicolossia
			* **Pulvia** (Pulvians are a group of basal wallacicolossians, only found in Isla Inferno. They have diverged from squillaichthyans in the Scelusian, but the clade itself has evolved in the Compsogene. They are small filter or bottom feeders. Pulvians are oviparous.)
			* Squillaichthya
				+ **Manticatitania** (Manticatitanians have diverged from wallaciwardiians in the late Scelusian and evolved in the Compsogene. These are titanic filter feeders found in most oceans of the globe. They are massively sized, with Nihilosuctor colossus, found only in waters around Media Insula, measuring 70 meters in "wingspan", and the pouched titan barnacle, found in most of the globe, measuring 34 meters in length, making these among the largest dispeculates on Wallace II, with many others competing for that title as well. Manticatitanians are basally oviparous, but Nihilosuctor is viviparous.)
				+ Wallaciwardiia
					- **Geosirenia** (Geosirenians are a group of aquatic panoplovitans that have diverged from filtercurans in the Variagene and evolved in the Compsogene. They are found in largely tropical waters. Geophage squidwardii, so called due to its resemblance to a cartoon character, lives in the shallow waters around Occidentis, where it "feeds" on geological material. Wallatee, on the other hand, is a freshwater inhabitant of the rivers, marshes and lakes of Media Insula, feeding on aquatic vegetation. Geosirenians are oviparous.)
					- Filtercura
						* **Columcuria** (Columcurians have diverged from squillavivoideans in the Compsogene and originated in the Recensgene. They are also found in warm and more tropical waters. The filter fish, appropriately named, lives in the Vadum Mare seas, but also visits freshwater regions of Media Insula. It is a swimmer, which can't be confidently said about the shallow sea dweller and crab-like Clodus crura that lives in the shallow seas around Occidentis. Unlike a crab, it does not come to land, being instead stuck to a life on the water. Columcurians are oviparous.)
						* **Squillavivoidea** (Squillavivoideans are closely related panoplovitans that have evolved in the Compsogene. They are found in tropical waters across the globe. The Squillavividae aurumovum is a filter feeder, feeding on Vadum Mare and the eastern coast of Media Insula. The garden whale is found in the tropical oceans of the entire globe and, in simillarity to many other panoplovitans, it has evolved a large size for filter feeding independently. The Squillacorpion squallupallus is a freshwater dwelling hunter that is also found in saltwater regions, in estuaries and rivers of Media Insula. Squillavivoideans are oviparous.)
* Curabiturbestia
	+ **Rybbinia** (The rybbinians are the basalmost curabiturbestians, having diverged from oralepraedans in the Accomodatian. It is only represented by the rybbin, a air sac filled bottom dweller of the ocean found in the waters surrounding Occidentis. Rybbinians are oviparous.)
	+ Oralepraeda
		- **Oralexcava** (Oralexcavans are the basalmost oralepraedans, having diverged from the ossicetaceans in the Accomodatian. They are only represented by the mouthed scoopers, some marine panoplovitans that are able to glide and even "fly" in the air to hunt prey in the open skies. They live in the southern seas of Virtu. They are able to breath both underwater and outside of the water, to ease their versatility in the two mediums. They are completely unable to move on land, however, and they might die if they strand there, as they have little chances of taking off again. Oralexcavans are oviparous.)
		- Ossicetacea
			* **Curapraeda** (Curapraedans have diverged from celestiphants in the Scelusian, and evolved in the Variagene. They are all marine species, found in most oceans, with the unusual exception of most of Medio Mari. Parvadea preadam is found in Vadum Mare. Curabiturcetus is a massive filter feeder with large air sacks that swims in the cold Virtuan seas. Garida is a deep sea panoplovitan, being found everywhere in the abyssal plane in Mare Orientalem, Plagam Maris and Tenebrosa Aqua. Curapraedans are viviparous.)
			* Celestiphantia
				+ **Communicetacea** (Communicetaceans are a widespread clade of "winged" panoplovitans. They have diverged from wallacibestians in the Scelusian and originated in the Variagene. The basalmost is the gigantic filter feeding moustache whale, possibly the most widespread giant filter-feeding panoplovitan being found in every ocean, and it might just be the largest panoplovitan of all, measuring an average of 20-30 meters long, but recordists have been recorded reaching 50 meters long. In contrast, their closest extant relatives are actually small fliers, known as the celestinymphs. These are small moth-like panoplovitans, the only terrestrial flying panoplovitans, that have evolved from aquatic large winged creatures sometime in the Compsogene. The common nymphus is the most widespread in terms of habitats, being found in deserts, fields and forests of the northern Terra Septentrionis. In contrast, the sky nymphus is found in the opposite side of the world in the cold mountains of Virtu. This suggests a worldwide distribution for nymphus, but they are now restricted in the colder latitudes, and it has been hypothesized recently evolved small flying entomogracilian gomphiobians might have been, at least partially responsible, for that decline. Communicetaceans are ovoviviparous.)
				+ Wallacibestia
					- **Silvatonia** (Silvatonians are the basalmost wallacibestians, or the basalmost terrestrial panoplovitans. Terrestrial panoplovitans have evolved for the first time in the Scelusian, and they are found in every continent except Terra Septentrionis, whose only non-aquatic panoplovitans there are the moth-like nymphus. The only representative of the silvatonians is the Wallace's silvaton, a weird lumbering giant from the cold swamps, forests and tundras of Virtu. Silvatonians are oviparous.)
					- Heliophantia
						* **Heliofragaconia** (The heliofragaconians are large land-dwelling panoplovitans that have diverged from scutabestians in the early Variagene and evolved in the early Compsogene. The basalmost is the quadrupedal Ossifragacorn that is endemic to Virtu. The closely related Eremita harenae and Heliotaurus terrambulatus are bipedal and have diverged from each other in the Recensgene. Eremita harenae is unusual for being found in both Occidentis and Media Insula, continents that have been separate before the divergence of these two species occured. Basing on fossils, Eremita was present in Virtu and Auth as well, no longer being right now, seemingly spreading to these by rafting from Media Insula, and eventually migrated from Virtu to Occidentis, now present in the two continents. Heliotaurus is endemic to the Gabre archipelago. Heliofragaconians are oviparous.)
						* Scutabestia
							+ **Litorbestia** (The litorbestians have diverged from the squillaphantians in the Variagene. They are only represented by the swamp and coast-dwelling shore beast, native to Media Insula. Litorbestians are oviparous.)
							+ Squillaphantia
								- **Scutaphantia** (Scutaphantians have diverged from squillatitans in the late Variagene. The only representative is the marshland and semi-aquatic dweller Scutaphanti, known for its elephantine like trunk, inhabiting the marshes and swamps of Occidentis. Scutaphantians are oviparous.)
								- Squillatitania
									* **Armatitania** (Armatitanians have evolved in the Compsogene. They have been very diverse over the last 70 million years, being found in places where they are now extinct, like modern Auth. Currently, only the Armatura collander exists, a terrestrial filter feeder, that feeds on the central tropical swamps of Media Insula. Armatitanians are oviparous.)
									* Squillabelloidea
										+ **Squillabellia** (Squillabellians have diverged from cristoambulantians in the Compsogene. They are only represented by the desert living eusocial Squillabellus. These are small, not surpassing 50 cm in height, and live in the deserts of Auth. Squillabellians are oviparous.)
										+ Cristoambulantia
											- **Paludiruptia** (Paludiruptians are a clade of panoplovotans that has diverged from flumencuniculians in the late Compsogene. The only valid species is the marsh walker, a tall swamp-dwelling creature found in the swamps of Virtu. Paludiruptians are oviparous.)
											- **Flumencuniculia** (Flumencuniculians are a recent clade of terrestrial panoplovitans that has evolved in the Recensgene. They are all native to Media Insula, and range from small to huge creatures, notorious for their quasi-mammal like look. Flumencuniculians are oviparous.)

## List of Panoplovitans

* *Exgeo insignispedetes*
* Flying Panoplovitan
* Frost Feeder
* Lumbering Fish
* Operimentums
* Sand Lurks
* Rostium

### **Canon**

Comederemembrata (214-0)

* Clavus deambulatino membratum
* Comedere lignum draco

Molasimilia (146-0)

* Molasimilis panoplovita
* Pluteustega
* Spadenosed wumbus

Macropanoplia (209-0)

* Macropanoplus transitus

Pulvia (90-0)

* Loricatorum faciem
* Pulvis comedenti

Manticatitania (75-0)

* Nihilosuctor colossus
* Pouched titan barnacle

Geosirenia (61-0)

* Geophage squidwardii
* Wallatee

Columcuria (46-0)

* Clodus crura
* The filter fish

Squillavivoidea (64-0)

* Garden whale
* Squillacorpion squallupalus
* Squillavividae aurumovum

Rybbinia (234-0)

* Rybbin

Oralexcava (216-0)

* Mouthed scooper

Curapraeda (132-0)

* Curabiturcetus
* Garida
* Parvadea preadam

Communicetacea (120-0)

* Common nymphus
* Moustache whale
* Sky nymphus

Silvatonia (162-0)

* Wallace's silvaton

Heliofragaconia (96-0)

* Eremita harenae
* Heliotaurus terrambulatus
* Ossifragacorn

Litorbestia (126-0)

* Shore beast

Scutaphantia (108-0)

* Scutaphanti

Armatitania (70-0)

* Armatura colander
* The horned titan

Squillabellia (72-0)

* Squillabellus

Paludiruptia (27-0)

* Cristoceragnath ruptus (now regarded as an ambulospeculid)
* Marsh walker

Flumencuniculia (36-0)

* Flumen ambulaticus
* Octopod ruminantia
* The great plains burrower