Agrioderma

**Agrioderma** (rough skin in Greek) sometimes called Salalizards, are the first class under the superclass Septempollicem, they are ectothermic, they are distinguished from other classes under this superclass, by the fact that they start out in the water, and then once they go up onto land they don't need to go back. They evolved 326,333,333 years ago and their point of origin is South Primaterra. They once took up a wide variety of ecological niches, ranging from mostly terrestrial reptilian niches, mostly Aquatic amphibian niches, and perfectly in the middle semi-aquatic niches. But when Olisthirodermia and Folidotodermia evolved they started to compete for niches, Agrioderma's numbers began to decline because Olisthirodermia and Folidotodermia filled out those niches better and out competed them. ecological niche partitioning helped for a while, but now theres only one species left alive today.

There was three subclasses under Agrioderma, Subclass: †Xenolepospondyli (Folidotodermia-like Agrioderma), Subclass: Xenotemnospondyliomorpha (Normal Agrioderma), and Subclass: †Xenolissamphibia (Olisthirodermia-like Agrioderma). the first was Xenotemnospondyliomorpha and is the only one still alive today, Normal **Agrioderma**s mostly took up a lot of the same niches as temnospondyls on Earth, most of those species would take up ecological niches that were 50% terrestrial and 50% aquatic being perfectly semi-aquatic, but some species would lean more towards land and some more towards water, one group of these more water leaning ones would for the first time in Septempollicema evolve the shark/dolphin body plan, this clade is Epithymiosauria, and would fill out the same role as a ichthyosaurs and Dolphins today, and just like ichthyosaurs, they were driven to **extinction** by intense climate change and their own failure to evolve quickly enough. Folidotodermia-like Agriodermas mostly took up a lot of the same niches as Reptiles on Earth, with most of them being fully terrestrial after leaving the larval stage, but just like some reptiles on Earth some of them would take up semi-aquatic niches again. One group of these would for the first time in Septempollicema evolve powered flight in the clade Dracosaurs, and would fill out the same role as Pterosaurs and Birds today, just like Pterosaurs on Earth, they took up generalist Bird niches, they ate seeds, Hume bugs, worms, and maybe small wish and small Hume lizards, but they started to take up bigger niches later on, just like Pterosaurs. Olisthirodermia-like Agriodermas mostly took up a lot of the same niches as amphibians on Earth, with most being either fully aquatic or semi-aquatic, but some species would do what the toad did on Earth and become more terrestrial. One group of these would evolve into a unique clade/class unlike any Tetrapod on Earth, it kinda looked a little bit like a frog, but only kinda, they didn't jump or hop, they walked and ran, and they had a tail like a chameleons, but instead of curling down like a chameleons it curled up, and has a retractable stinger, this clade is Frynoskorpia.

The clade Folidotodermiomorpha would give rise to the subclass Xenolepospondyli, which would give rise to the clade Gallinaeveteris, which would give rise to the class Folidotodermia. The clade Olisthirodermiomorpha would give rise to the subclass Xenolissamphibia, which would give rise to the clade Neotenikos, which would give rise to the class Olisthirodermia.

There are only one surviving species today, akin to the Tuatara on Earth, they're the last of their kind. That species is Prota prota, Due to its striking similarity and similar skeletal structure and basically everything else it is believed to be a direct descendant of the very first Septempollicem, Prota Stisteria.

## Agriodermas have six stages of their life cycle,

Stage #1. Egg

Stage #2. Tadpole-like form

Stage #3. tadpole-like form with legs

Stage #4. Salamander/lizard-like form with soft, smooth skin that they need to keep wet and external gills

Stage #5. Salamander/lizard-like form with soft, smooth skin that they need to keep wet and no external gills

Stage #6. Salamander/lizard-like form with rough waterproof scaly skin.

Once they reach maturity they no longer need water except to drink and to reproduce in it, but that's about it.

One clade would develop Neoteny, and would stay in it's Stage #5. Salamander/lizard-like form with soft, smooth skin that they need to keep wet and no external gills form it's whole life and would evolve into the class Olisthirodermia, then one clade of Olisthirodermia would develop Neoteny yet again and stay in it's Stage #4. Salamander/lizard-like form with soft, smooth skin that they need to keep wet and external gills form it's whole life and would evolve into the order Giapantaneos, then one clade of Giapantaneos would develop Neoteny yet again and stay in it's Stage #3. tadpole-like form with legs form it's whole life and would evolve into the family Penteneosidae, then one clade of Penteneosidae would develop Neoteny yet again and stay in it's Stage #2. Tadpole-like form it's whole life and would evolve into the genus Mimegaloseispote.

Just like how **Karcharias** had a short cut to the land by not having to worry about evolving hardshelled eggs because they already give live birth, Septempollicems had a short cut too, by Agrioderma already having rough waterproof scaly skin. Unlike **Karcharia** and Tetrapods which had Amphibians and Olisthiroskarcharias as their first classes, both of these classes are defined by their smooth scaleless skin that they have to keep mosit, since Agrioderma has scaly skin, they were able to take to the land a bit faster then Tetrapods were, but it still took Septempollicems a long time to take over the land, just not as long as it took Tetrapods.

## Levels of how much each class kept the electric ability,

**Agrioderma** 100%

Olisthirodermia 88%

Folidotodermia 75%

Fterotodermia 25%

Gounia 50%

Ypsilistasia 99%

Frynoskorpia 50%

Xenosynapsid unknown

Dinoavesia unknown.

Dracosauria unknown

This doesn't mean that all Agriodermas have the electric abilities, it just means all that are alive today have it, since there's only one left that means that 100% of them today have it. An actual accurate estimate is difficult to determine because there's not a whole lot in the fossil record to go off of.

## Intelligents Level

Since they evolved from **Ilektrika pezoporos**, which had the intelligents of a house cat, some researchers theorized that all or next to near all of them had near human intelligents, but most believe that is unlikely. It's more likely that Prota Stisteria had cat intelligents (which is near human intelligents), and most species probably had Placentalia intelligents. But since it's hard to tell intelligents from fossils, we might never know the average intelligents of most Agrioderma, using the same technology we used to tell dinosaur intelligents, we now know the intelligents of some extinct genera and species, but we don't know how accurate these estimates really are. The only survivaing species Prota prota has **crocodilian** intelligents, so this might be a hint to what the average intelligents of Agrioderma is and or was, but we will never know for sure.

## Anatomy

Their head is were the brain is kept, their retractable eyestalks, their whisacles, their ears, and their mouth are all controlled by their brain. Their eyes are on stalks that can be retracted like a snail. But some have lost the ability to retract them, some have reduced the eyestalks making them slightly shorter than others, and a few have forgone them and just have eyes on their heads like tetrapods. Most of them have a parietal eye, but some have lost this, the only surviving species today has a parietal eye. The parietal eye, unlike the other two eyes, is not on a stalk. How good their eyesight is depends on the clade. Whisacles are prehensile in most clades, most clades have prehensile whisacles, meaning they can use them like how an octopus uses their tentacles to grab stuff, some clades elongated their whisacles to the point where they could be used like arms, other clades reduce them for whatever reason losing the prehensility, they're also used to smell, how good their sense of smell is depends on the clade and the size of the whisacles, bigger whisacles can pick up more smells from farther away, while smaller whisacles can't pick up smells from as far away. These whisacles send electrical signals to other parts of the body telling them what to do, making them somewhat like additional brains. For example, when prey is near and bites or attempts to bite the whisacles, rather than sending signals to the brain which then tells the rest of the body to attack, they will send the signals themselves. Some species may have had bioluminescent whisacles. Although all Agriodermas are able to hear, this sense is most pronounced in Xenotemnospondyli. Most Agrioderma lack an external ear and instead have an internal ear, although Xenotemnospondylinae and Tetrapodmnospondylinae do have an external membrane called the tympanum that transmits sound to the inner ear, just like a frog on Earth. Their mouths in most clades are not able to to chew their food, but two have evolved chewing. All Agrioderma have tongues, some clades can taste, and some clades can't so they only use their tongues to help them swallow their food. **Xenotemnospondyls** often **have teeth** on their palates, as well as in their jaws. Some of these **teeth** are so large, they are referred to as tusks. Anything outside of Xenotemnospondyliformes usually don't have teeth on their palates. What their teeth looked like depends on what they ate. No Agrioderma that has been found so far has had different teeth for different purposes, all species found have completely identical teeth.

Most have a **Temnospondyls, Salamander,** or lizard body plan, but the crocodile body plan has evolved at least three times in this class, once in each subclass. The snake body plan has evolved once in the Subclass: †Xenolepospondyli, earlier members of this clade still had working legs but they were reduced, later members would evolved completely vestigial legs, and some of the latest members would forgo the legs completely. The turtle body plan has evolved once in this class. The Caecilian/worm body plan has evolved once in the Subclass: †Xenolissamphibia. The theropods body plan has even evolved once in Subclass: Xenotemnospondyliomorpha. Their typical body plan goes along the lines of a lizard. Normally they have six legs with seven toes, some have lost the a pair or two, some have lost all their legs. And some species have lost some toes. The clade that evolved the theropods body plan has two sister clades under it, one where the first pair of legs has evolved into arms, the other has evolved the first and second pairs of legs into arms. Their feet can have just toes with claws or webbing, webbing but no claws, claws but no webbing, and both webbing and claws, what kind of feet they have depends on their lifestyle. With webbed feet for a more aquatic lifestyle, clawed feet for a more terrestrial lifestyle, and semi-aquatic lifestyles can have either web and claws or none of these. Their legs are typically in a sprawling posture, but some clades have convergently evolved a semi-erect posture independently of each other a few times, but only one clade would evolved a erect posture. Their tails are typically thick and long like a lizard or a crocodile, but some clades have evolved flatten tails to help swim, some have re-evolved a tail fin or tail fins to help them swim, and some have both a flatten tail with a fin or fins. Some can broke their tails off to escape predators, and they will grow their tails back, like lizards. Their tails can also be use for balance. Some have prehensile tails. Some have tails that can be use as a whip to defend themselves. One clade of the whip tails would go on to evolve a spike on the end of their tails, this lineage would give rise to the Frynoskorpia. And some are able to channel their electricity to the tip of tail. Their skin covering differers from subclass to subclass, Subclass: †Xenolepospondyli has overlapping scales, Subclass: Xenotemnospondyliomorpha has nonoverlapping scales, and Subclass: †Xenolissamphibia has scales that are oddly spaced so that they're exposing their skin so that it can **breathe through** lungs and **their skin**. **Their skin** has to stay wet in order for them to absorb oxygen so they secrete mucous to keep **their skin** moist, just like an amphibian.

When it comes to breathing since they don't have nostrils most just breathe through their mouth, but this can be problematic since it's the same tubes that they eat food with, same problem as with tetrapods but worse because they don't have a backup system (aka nostrils) to breathe through in case their mouth gets something stuck in it, so to come back this, two separate times in Septempollicema they have evolved operculum, just like Cathibians. The two times this evolved in Septempollicema was once in **Agrioderma**, and once in Folidotodermia. Their Bones are made up of a framework of a protein called collagen, with a mineral called calcium phosphate that makes the framework hard and strong, like vertebrates on Earth. The internal organs of Septempollicems are very similar to tetrapods on Earth, with organs performing very similar, if not the exact same functions, with one exception, most Septempollicems have three pairs of abdominal organs that produce electricity: the main organ, Hunter's organ, and Sachs' organ, some have lost these organs due to not using electricity anymore, others have just reduced them.

## Taxonomy

Kingdom: Animalisaliena

Phylum: Xenochordata

Subphylum: Psariaskoulikion

Class: Ostikiepithymia

Clade: Idiotamcaptionemviventem

Clade: Ilektrikapodia

Clade: Septempollicemia

Superclass: Septempollicem

Class: **Agrioderma** (only one living species)

Subclasses, orders, families, and genera under Agrioderma:

Subclass: Xenotemnospondyliomorpha

Order: Xenotemnospondyli

Family: Pezoporia

Genus: Prota

Subclasses under Agrioderma

Subclass: †Xenolepospondyli

Subclass: Xenotemnospondyliomorpha

Subclass: †Xenolissamphibia

Please add your own extinct Clades, Subclasses, Orders, Families, Genera, and species here.

## The Taxonomy of The First Septempollicem

Domain: Exogiinosefkaryotis

Kingdom: Animalisaliena

Phylum: Xenochordata

Subphylum: Psariaskoulikion

Clade: Idiotamcaptionemviventem

Superclass: Septempollicema

Class: **Agrioderma**

Subclass: Xenotemnospondyliomorpha

Superorder: Xenotemnospondyliformes

Clade: Xenotemnospondylia

Order: Xenotemnospondyli

Superfamily: Xenotemnospondylidea

Family: Pezoporidae

Subfamily: Pezoporinae

Genus: Prota

Species: Stisteria