Ctenizaoxuderce dentatussauvagesi

***Ctenizaoxuderce dentatussauvagesi*** (Cteniza is the scientific name of the trapdoor spider, and oxuderce is the scientific name for mudskippers; *dentatussauvagesi* is a mashup of the words dentatus and sauvagesi) is one of the surviving species of The End Of Times Extinction Event, it's survived for the same reason as every other Survivor of this Extinction event, it had special abilities similar to that of the water bears and the naked mole rats of Earth. They are basically the land equivalent of *Manustrapdoora kryftisapothanatos.* In this species the females on average can get up to 4 feet long, (not including the hands) from the mouth all the way to the tail 4 feet long. While the males (not including the hands) from mouth to tail tip on average get up to 2 ft long. The average height of the female is one and a half feet tall, while the average height of the male is 1 feet tall. The females could get two feet wide, while the males get up to 1 ft wide. Their average lifespan for both males and females was probably somewhere around Thirty Earth years.

## Evolution

They evolved from *Ctenizaoxuderce prima* around 334mya, and their point of origin is the western side of South Primaterra. It evolved from a population of *C. prima* that lived in an area with a slight bit more food than other areas allowing them to grow bigger, this eventually led to the larger size of the species they would evolve into, this actually happened two separate times in two separate areas, the other species to come from this was Ctenizaoxuderce mega, unfortunately *C. mega* did not survive through the extinction event because eventually the territories of *C. mega* and ***Ctenizaoxuderce dentatussauvagesi*** began to overlap, and eventually, *C. mega* was out competed. Normally small things survive extinction events while bigger things don't, but this species found a perfect Middle Ground of not being too big, but being small enough to still survive. They would go on to evolve into more Species of *Ctenizaoxuderce*, new genera, new families, new orders, and even a few classes, most of which are monospecific, and most of those are extinct now, but there is one non monospecific class that evolved from them, and that is still alive today, and that class is Dachtylopodia.

## Anatomy

### Head

Their head is where their brain is kept, and that brain helps them control their entire body. The head is also where their eyes are, where their ear stones are, where their whisacles are, and where their mouth is. Unlike the eyes of other genera under Arpaktikoaltidae, these eyes in this genus are not on stalks, instead they closely resemble mudskipper eyes, how good the eyesight is can vary from species to species but most of them generally have decent eyesight on land but kind of blurry in water. Ctenizaoxuderce can see **almost 360 degrees around them** and have excellent vision in air, but their vision in water is not so good. They have a sac filled with water beneath their eyes, known as a ”dermal cup”. They use their ear stones to both hear and maintain balance. Their whisacles do many things, such as sense of smell, luring pray, additional brains, and grasping appendages. Their mouth is what they use to breathe and eat, whenever they are in the water they use their gills to breathe, whenever they are on land they use their lungs to breathe. Their mouth is also full of razor-sharp teeth and a tongue. Unlike the mudskipper on Earth this wish has a tongue that it uses to help swallow food, unlike the mudskipper which doesn't have a tongue and instead it uses a special water suction ability to help it pick up food. It is believed to have all the same taste receptors as humans, but they are more primitive versions. They have two gill slits on either side of the neck, they use these to help with breathing.

### Body

#### External

Their body is covered head to tail in scales, the color of these scales can vary from species to species. They have no Dorsal fins or tail fins the only fins that it has are two sets of pectoral fins and one set of pelvic fins. At the end of the first pair of pectoral fins are giant five-fingered webbed hands, it uses these giant hands as a door to it's burrow, kind of like the trapdoor spider on Earth except instead of having the door be made of dirt it's made of hand, it also uses it's hands to grab a hold of prey when they get close. These fingers like the digits of tetrapods on Earth and the legs of the sea robin on Earth evolved from rays on the end of the fin, this genus has lost the rest of the rays, so it can no longer evolve more fingers, now it's stuck at five. At the end of the second pair of pectoral fins are a set of smaller hands with only four fingers, three normal fingers and one thumb, this set of hands is used to help it hold on to the inside of the burrow so nothing can pull it out. At the end of the pelvic fins is yet another set of small hands specifically to help it hold on inside the burrow, this hand also only has four fingers, three normal fingers, and a thumb. Their tale is prehensile with no tail fin on it and it is also used to help hold it inside the burrow, but whenever it's out of its burrow it can help maintain balance.

#### Internal

Their are not much special they're the same as the rest of the **Arpaktikoaltidae** family, except for the fact that they have actually lost one of the two hearts, now they only have one. They do not have a penis, they reproduce by putting their cloacas together.

## Habitat

Their habitat range was all of the western side of South Primaterra, including Southwest. This means there was a bit of overlap with the territory of C. epizon, most of the time Epizon would be eaten by ***Dentatussauvagesi**,* but sometimes they would interbreed creating a hybrid species, C. *dentatussauvagesi* X C. epizon. Although since mixed breeding between these two species was rare, and The Offspring typically didn't make it to adulthood because they would often get eaten before it got to there, this hybrid never became an established species. They can be found along the shoreline or in river basins.

## Breeding

Their mating ritual is the same as every other species in the genus, the ritual of trying to find the right dance partner. Each species has a slightly different dance, and it is unknown what this species dance look like because it is long extinct.

## Adaptations

Ironically the biggest adaptation of this species is how big it is. The second most notable adaptation is the ability to go into stasis to wait out times of hardship which is how it survived The End Of Times Extinction, and it actually convergently evolved this with its two sister species Mega, and Epizon, all three of these species evolved from C. prima, making ***Dentatussauvagesi**,* Epizon, and Mega sister species, we also know that all three of them this independently of each other because C. prima didn't have the stasis ability, we know this because it completely went extinct as soon as the extinction event started.

## Threats

Just like ***Manustrapdoora kryftisapothanatos,*** and Ilektrika pezoporos they where the apex predators of their area, so they didn't really have much to worry about when it comes to predators, except cannibalism from their own kind. The only other threats that they probably had to worry about was starvation, disease, viruses, and natural disasters.

## Additional Information

**Discovery**: This Species was discovered by an anonymous Aununa who sold it to the A.R.F. museum after discovering it in an unknown location, later specimens that were found legally by officially license paleontologist, through this we discovered that its range was all of the western side of South Primaterra, so we can assume that's when the first specimen was found.

**Name** **of** **the** **person** **who** **discovered** **it**: Unknown.

**Jokes**: N/A

**Intelligents** **Level**: 4: Controls exceptionally advanced movement patterns, possesses problem-solving abilites and can often  complete simple puzzles when presented them (Examples: birds, especially corvids, mammals)

**Tier**: S

**Assessment**: Unlike the smaller species in this genus, this species could actually do some harm because of how big it was. So dangerous, do not go near. 🚫

## Taxonomy

Domain: Exogiinosefkaryotis

Kingdom: Animalisaliena

Subkingdom: Enmetazoae

Phylum: Xenochordata

Subphylum: Psariaskoulikion

Megaclass: Epithymia

Superclass: Skoulikionpsaria

Class: Ostikiepithymia

Subclass: Efchimelovo

Order: Psithyrismenoprosopoiformes

Suborder: Programmataanichnefsiskatoidei

Clade: Idiotamcaptionemviventem

Subclade: Ourapterygio

Section: Mobileidiotamcaptionem

Family: Arpaktikoaltidae

Tribe: Arpaktikoaltini

Clade: Arpachtisvrachon

Genus: *Ctenizaoxuderce*

Species: ***Ctenizaoxuderce dentatussauvagesi***

\*\*Subspecies under *Ctenizaoxuderce dentatussauvagesi*\*\*

Subspecies *Ctenizaoxuderce dentatussauvagesi dentatussauvagesi*

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