Arpaktikoaltis superstes

***Arpaktikoaltis superstes*** (meaning Surviving predatory jumper) (common name, The Jumping Survivor) is a species under the family **Arpaktikoaltisae,** and is one of the surviving species of THE END OF TIMES Extinction event. It evolve three million years before the event and survived another four million years after the event was over, it died out due to being out competed by the other species that evolved from it. There have been 15 different specimens of this species in the fossil record, five of them from before the extinction event, another five from during the extinction event, and finally another five from after the extinction event. This species was discovered by the same woman who discovered Ilektrika pezoporos, and was actually discovered mere moments after digging out the Ilektrika pezoporos specimen, upon initial discovery it was thought to be a juvenile Ilektrika pezoporos, but upon further examination showed it was a different species. It evolved 336mya and died out 329mya, its point of origin was the shallow Beach areas of South Primaterra. Most surviving species in this genus usually get to two and a half feet long for females and 2 ft long for males, with the males being 6in wide and the females being 7in wide, the males being 6in tall and the females being 8in tall. A safe guess for how old the species could get based on its modern descendants probably a 40-Earth year lifespan.

## Evolution

They evolved from the species Arpaktikoaltis joshuai. It evolved to be an multicellular extremophile because of rising volcanic activity meaning if it didn't evolve this trait it would have gone extinct. It would go on to give rise to every modern species in this genus, a few new Genera, and even new families, and entire new orders. Because of this this species is the beginning of a new clade known as Neoarpaktikoaltis.

## Anatomy

### Head

Their head is where their eyes, whisacles, mouth, inner ears, and their brain is kept. Its eyes are on stalks like a snail, so that way they can keep an eye out for predators or prey, their eyesight isn't as bad as Ilektrika's eyesight, but it's not the best either their vision is a little blurry and they can only see in black and white. Their whisacles can be used to smell, but can also grab things like little tentacles, but their main purpose is to act as a lure to lure in prey by either looking like worms or seagrass. Their mouths are what they eat and breathe through gulping water in passing through the gills and then back out the gill slits, they can also open and close their gill slits and pump water through that way, since they are mostly kind of a wait for your meal to come to you kind of animal their mouth is filled with razor sharp teeth, just in case a prey item is too big to swallow whole, the teeth will help rip chunks out, and their tongue is just used as a swallow assist, they do have all the same taste receptors as us, but they are simplified versions. They detect vibrations through their "earstones" called otoliths, them and other wish use parts of their ears to help them with balance. Their brain is a slight bit bigger than the typical Earth fish, and this also shows them to be a slight bit more intelligent, it's hard to measure intelligence in an extinct species, but because the genus is still alive today if we look at modern surviving species of the genus we can make a safe assumption, and from what we can tell it has at least dog level intelligence. They have two gill slits on each side of their face which is one more than a normal Earth fish.

### Body

#### Outsides

Their body on the outside consist of a body, and a tail, and some fins. Their whole body including the head is covered in scales, it is unknown what color these scales were, but we can assume probably grayish to maybe a Sandy yellow. Unlike later Genera in this family this genus has the vestigial fins on its back, two Dorsal fins and unknown third fin. It also still has a tail fin that is small and vestigial, and resembles a fan. It has lost its anal Fin and one pair of its pelvic fins. It still has two pairs of pectoral fins and one set of pelvic fins, these fins are very leg-like, but unlike Ilektrika pezoporos and Tiktaalik roseae which had strong muscular fins for pulling itself on to land, these fins were more like coelacanth fins and cannot help the creature move on land. Since it doesn't swim anymore it has repurposed its tail to do other things, like help it maintain balance while the wish walked, and helping it dig a spot to lay eggs in.

#### Insides

They have a brain, this brain is responsible for everything in the body. They have calcium bones, just like Earth animals. It has two hearts and it's blood is red. It has lungs that evolved the exact opposite way from Earth lungs, it is unknown how lungs evolved, but it is known that the swim bladder in most bony fish evolved from A Primitive lung, here on Hume III the swim bladder came first and lungs evolved from them. Everything else is what you would expect stomach, intestines, all that good stuff. Unlike most wish, this species has a cloaca, but no penis.

## Habitat

They used to live in only the beach areas of South primaterra and the mouths of rivers, but after the extinction event and most species were wiped out it allowed them to take up new homes in every body of water in South Primaterra, as well as the shorelines all around all of Primaterra.

## Diet

They ate mostly meat, usually whatever animal they could get ahold of, but sometimes they would occasionally eat vegetation to supplement their diet. It's hunting strategy is to bury itself and have only whisacles sticking out in order to resemble worms or seagrass. When pray bites or attempts to bites the whisacles, the whisacles themselves will send a signal to the rest of the body telling it to lunge, basically this wish has three brains.

## Breeding

Their breeding habits are rather interesting, first the female will lay down pheromones to attract mates. When the mates get there they will have to fight to the death, and the winner will get to mate with the female. This is a little bit different from Ilektrika's mating ritual, instead of the female picking two or more to fight and the others just kind of go away, instead they all fight as soon as they see each other. After this the winner will mate with the female by sticking their cloacas together, then the female digs a hole or finds a nook and cranny to lay her eggs in, she will watch over them until they hatch, but after that they're on their own..

## Adaptations

Their remarkable adaptations include their whisacles, and the ability to slow all body functions down to a near stop in order to wait out times of hardship, like a mass Extinction event which lowered oxygen levels. But every species that survive the end of times had that adaptation or else they wouldn't have survived.

## Threats

That depends on what time and place they were in, when they first started out whenever they were in the ocean they had to deal with Hharks, and many other predators, but in a pond or in a river they were mostly safe, not really having to worry about much except maybe another one of their own kind, but that would only be when food was scarce, even other Genera of their family would mostly be safe, but after the extinction event and there was barely any food around everything would eat everything, so whenever they were in the same body of water as an Ilektrika pezoporos they would have to worry about that eating them, but whenever there wasn't one of those around they would be the top predator and the only thing that would have to worry about another one of their own kind.

## Additional Information

Additional Information

Discovery: it was discovered a mere few feet away from the original Ilektrika pezoporos specimen that was discovered in a coal mine, it was initially thought to be a juvenile Ilektrika pezoporos, but once they got it out and started studying it they realized it was a different species, it is now believed that they died in mid Chase with the Ilektrika pezoporos attempting to catch and eat the Arpaktikoaltis superstes.

Name of the person who discovered it: Yuliana Ivanova.

Jokes: you could say that this guy jumps at any opportunity to catch prey.

Intelligents Level: near human levels of intelligence.

Can you eat it or no?: No, because it's already dead.

Assessment: We can tell from its modern descendants that this species probably wouldn't have attacked on site since it prefers to sit and wait for its prey, as long as a human doesn't accidentally step on them then they shouldn't go out of their way to attack, and even if it did it couldn't do much harm because of how small it was, the only way you could die is if you accidentally blood out in the water. So safe. 👍

## Taxonomy

Domain: Exogiinosefkaryotis

Kingdom: Animalisaliena

Subkingdom: Enmetazoae

Phylum: Xenochordata

Subphylum: Psariaskoulikion

Megaclass: Epithymia

Superclass: Skoulikionpsaria

Class: Ostikiepithymia

Subclass: Efchimelovo

Order: Psithyrismenoprosopo

Suborder: Programmataanichnefsiskatoidei

Clade: Idiotamcaptionemviventem

Subclade: Ourapterygio

Section: Mobileidiotamcaptionem

Family: Arpaktikoaltidae

Tribe: Arpaktikoaltini

Genus: *Arpaktikoaltis*

Clade: Neoarpaktikoaltis

Species: ***Arpaktikoaltis superstes***

No adding subspecies here, I only plan on there being one.