Ostikiepithymia

Ostikiepithymia (Bony Wish) are a class of Wish that are distinguished by the fact that they have a bony skeleton. They evolved somewhere around 444,444,444 years ago, and they evolved from a boneless wish ancestor. They have two subclasses, Efchimelovo (Lobe-finned Wish) and Efcharistiefchi (Ray-finned Wish). On Earth, scientist first thought that the swim bladder came first and then lungs evolved from the swim bladder, but fossil evidence revealed the opposite lungs came first and the swim bladder evolve from lungs. So when scientists got to Hume III they thought the same thing, but fossil evidence has revealed the opposite. On hume III the swim bladder came first and then the swim bladder evolve into lungs. Also on Earth, Lobe-finned Fish are now believed to have come first, before Ray-finned Fish, due to fossil evidence. On Hume III, fossil evidence shows that Ray-finned Wish came first. Some species alive today have a parietal **eye** also known as a third **eye** or pineal **eye,** all Bony Wishes had this third eye when they first evolved, but many species independently and convergently lost it, now only a few species today have it.

## Anatomy

They have a bony skeleton, are generally laterally flattened, have ten pairs of gills protected by two operculums, (some later species would evolve more operculums, and some would lose one.) and a mouth at or near the tip of the snout. The dermis is covered with overlapping scales. Bony wish have a swim bladder which helps them maintain a constant depth in the water column, but not a cloaca (except for the clades that would later give rise to Septempollicems and Cathibians).

The head contains the brain, the eyes, sometimes nostrils, the mouth, sometimes with teeth, sometimes ears. Their brains are a little bit bigger then most fish brains, and their brains do what brains do, which is controlling the whole body. How good their eyesight is depends on the clade or species, some of them have lost their eyes, and the clade. **Idiotamcaptionemviventem** has evolved eyes on retractable eyestalks like a snail. Some species today have a parietal **eye,** but most species don't, some have it when they're born but lose it when they get older. The first Wish didn't have nostrils and most wish don't, but many clades have convergently evolved nostrils independently of each other many time, the Legion: Psithyristike (Catwish) has evolved catfish-like whiskers called barbels, just like a catfish, These sensitive feelers **are** called “**barbels**." Each barbel is loaded with tiny taste buds and special olfactory sensors to help the wish smell. **Catwish** tend to live in dark, murky waters where their vision isn't very useful. **Barbels** help the wish search out food using their senses of touch and taste. But the Section: Mobileidiotamcaptionem (Whisacleswish) would evolve these barbels into something called **whisacles,** these 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 senes 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. And in the family Arpaktikoaltisidae (Predatory Jumper Wish) the 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. Wish that don't have nostrils or whisacles either have no senes of smell or they go the Squamata route and smell with their tongues. (More on their tongues later). Their mouths, like in all ailens and animals, are used to eat food, and breathing, some wish don't have teeth or a tongue, and are just used to swallow little food whole and breathing. Some wish teeth but no tongue, some have a tongue but no teeth, and some have both, what their teeth look like depends on what they eat, some wish have a filter feeding system in their mouths. Most wish have a tongue, some don't. It's unknown and unclear if the first bony wish had a tongue. Some wish only have a immovable tongue that's stuck to the bottom of the mouth. Some have a tongue that helps to swallow food. Some use it for taste, while others use it for smell like a lizard or snake. Some clades that have lure like an anglerfishes have evolved that lure into an antenna that they can smell with, some will hear with it, and some will do both, clade that had two lures would evolve them into two antenna. Some clades elongated their tongues to the point where they could be used like an arm, so some clades and species can use them for taste, small, and like an arm. How good their senes of taste is depends on the clade. Some deep sea clades of these arm tongue wish have evolved their tongues to be bioluminescent. People hear by detecting sound vibrations. **Wish** hear, but their "**ears**" are on the inside. Bony **wishes** detect vibrations through their "earstones" called otoliths. Both people and **wish** use parts of their **ears** to help them with balance. But not all wish have these earstones, some don't have them, others have them and have earholes, while others have them but no earholes. How good their hearing was depends on the clade. And some hear with an antenna or two. Most bony fish have one gill slit, but some fish like tuna have two gill slits, but for wish two gill slits is the normal amount, some wish have more, and some wish have less, but most have two. Most bony wish have two dorsal fins, one adipose fin, caudal peduncle, caudal fin, anal fin, two pairs of pelvic fins, and two pairs of pectoral fins. That is the standard amount of fins that next to near all bony wish have, but some have lost one or more of these fins for one reason or another, and some have completely gotten rid of their fins entirely. On Earth Ray-finned fish evolved from Lobe-finned fish by having a lobe with the rays on the end of it slowly getting reduced until eventually only the rays are left and that's how ray-finned fish evolved, now I bet you're wondering how it could work the opposite way on Hume III well let me explain. Early Ray-finned wish actually had a tiny bit of a lobe and that lobe would get longer until they became Lobe-finned wish, but other ray-finned wish would reduce these lobes until only the rays remained, most modern Ray-finned wish have only the rays, their are only 8 species left that still have that little lobe. Most bony wish have a scale-like covering on their body but some don't, these scales are called wcales. The tails of a fish on earth is just about always used for motion and that's all its purpose is, to push the animal forward, but one group of fish on earth call the seahorses and sea dragons have evolved a prehensile tail. On Hume III prehensile tails in wish have evolved more than just once, and some wish that prefer to walk on the sea floor have actually lost their tails, no fish on earth has ever lost their tail. They all have a bony skeleton, except for some deep sea wish, just like the blob fish on earth, some deep sea wish have actually lost a skeleton. They have a closed circulatory system with veins and arteries, one thing that makes them different from fish is that most wish have two hearts instead of one but of course some wish have lost the extra heart either from reducing it until it was no more, or fusion with the other heart making them have one big heart or a random biological glitch were the code for it got deleted. Their blood is red. Some wish have two swim bladder, some have only one, some wish have two lungs, some have only one, some wish have no lungs or swim bladder, and one species has one swim bladder and one lung. The rest of their internal organs are nothing special, they do what they do in fish on Earth. As for their **reproductive organs** most wish reproduce like fish on Earth, by laying the eggs and fertilizes them outside the body. In most cases, **the** female drops **eggs** in **the** water which are immediately **fertilized** by sperm from **the** male. Another way is for **fertilization** to occur within **the** females body before she drops them into **the** water. With **the** third and final method, **the** female retains **the eggs** within **her** body and **the** young are born alive. Most wish don't have a cloaca, but some do, and the ones that do use them to fertilized the eggs within their bodies. The subgenus Ilektrikopeoia has actually evolved a true penis, they are the only bony wish to have a penis. In most species of wish there is a male and a female and the only to reproduce is by finding a mate. Some species of wish can reproduce asexual if it can't find a mate. In some species the males will turn into females if they can't find a female or if they're filling out the same niche as a Clownfish on Earth. In other species the females will turn into males if they can't find a male. And in one species there are no males and they reproduce completely asexually.

Taxonomy

Domain: Exogiinosefkaryotis

Kingdom: Animalisaliena

Branch: Kyriokatastima

Phylum: Xenochordata

Subphylum: Psariaskoulikion

Megaclass: Epithymia

Superclass: Skoulikionpsaria

Class: **Ostikiepithymia**

\*\*Subclasses and Clades under. Ostikiepithymia\*\*

Subclass: Efcharistiefchi (Ray-finned Wish)

Subclass: Efchimelovo (Lobe-finned Wish)

Clade: Ilektrikapodia

Add your own clades here, no adding subclasses here, only planned on there being two.