Manustrapdoora kryftisapothanatos

***Manustrapdoora kryftisapothanatos*** (Manustrapdoora meaning trapdoor hands in Latin, **kryftisapothanatos** meaning hide and seeker in Greek), is one of the surviving species of The End Of Times Extinction Event. It evolved around 334 million years ago, and its point of origin is somewhere in South Primaterra. This species is found in fast-moving Rapids and often preys on *Pterygiodaktylous*, which is the genus that it evolved from, so it's kind of like eating your own parents. Why it has the name hide and Seeker even though hiding in a hole is something every species in this genus does, and it's not just this specific species is because they couldn't think of any other unique name for it. Some people, including humans, Aununas, and the other four intelligent species on the planet, have an irrational fear of them, just like how people are scared of spiders, snakes, sharks, bats, and many other things that are completely harmless, this fear is called Megamanusophobia (meaning fear of big hands), this probably extend from the fact that some species have hands big enough to wrap around the entire head of a human, this species being one of those. 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 life span is estimated to be 50 Earth years for the females and 40 Earth years for the males.

## Evolution

They evolved from an unknown species of Manustrapdoora, and evolved the ability to slow down or even shut down certain bodily functions in order to wait out times of hardship, for example a decrease in oxygen. It evolve this because there was slowly increasing volcanic activity at the time. It would go on to evolve into other Genera, families, orders, and even a few classes, most of them being monospecific.

## Anatomy

### Head

Their head is where their brain is kept. It is also where the eyes, ears, mouth, and whisacles are kept. Their eyes are on stalks like a snail, and can be attracted and retracted just like a snail's eyes, but because of the fast-moving Rapids this species lived in it's eyes are retracted by default. And because of the murky water that it lived in it didn't have the greatest eyesight just barely being able to make out shapes. They have ear stones that they used to both hear and maintain balance, they have a decent sense of hearing. Unlike other Genera in the family which have a mouth more like a catfish, this genus has a longer narrower mouth with Jagged sharp teeth protruding out, kind of resembles the moray eels mouth. Its teeth are Jagged and razor-sharp meant for killing and holding on to pray. It's tongue is mostly just use as a swallow assist but does have the receptors for the five tastes that we have but they are primitive versions, so they have a decent sense of taste. Because this species lived in fast-moving Rapids in order to reduce drag it had only medium length whisacles instead of the longer ones that other species and other Genera have, it's sense of smell is pretty decent not as good as it could be though. They had two gill slits on either side of the neck, these help them breathe.

### Body

#### Outsides

Their entire body is covered in scales, the scales of this species in particular are suspected to be dark brown ish due to the muddy dark water that it lived in. It has 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. This species also has worm-like appendages on the hands to help lure pray, these lures can be mistaken for either worms or seagrass. 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 only has three fingers no 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.

#### Insides

Their bones are made of calcium. They have a closed circulatory system and red blood. They have muscles and a central nervous system. They have two hearts, one of them being slightly reduced. They have both gills and lungs. Stomach, kidneys, intestines, and all that good stuff. They have a cloaca, and they reproduce by putting their cloacas together, they do not have a penis.

## Habitat

They lived in fast-moving Rapids all around South Primaterra. They preferred freshwater but they can live in salt water as well. How they got into multiple Rivers is either through flooding which allowed two rivers to merge into one temporarily and then once the flooding subsided the ones that went into the other River got trapped, same things can go for lakes and ponds and every other body of water, that's how fish on Earth that are of the same species somehow get into multiple bodies of water, or some got washed down the river into the ocean and then swam up a different River, or maybe it's both.

## Diet

Considering their method of hunting they were probably 100% carnivorous and ate absolutely no plants. Their method of hunting is to sit and wait inside a burrow with their hands usually covering the opening, only jumping out when a prey items swims by, since plants don't often come by they probably would never catch a plant because unlike other Genera under this family these ones don't move a whole lot, they usually stay in their Burrows meaning they're not occasionally walking around and happening upon water plants to eat them. So yeah 100% carnivorous.

## Breeding

They reproduce by touching cloacas together and releasing gametes. First the male crawls out of his burrow to go find a mate. The male will distinguish if it's a female if it is bigger than him, and once it finds a mate, usually by smell, not sight, it will wait for a prey item to come by and when she grabs a hold of that prey item he slips into the hole and begins the mating process. The reason why he has to do it like this is because if he just tried to go right in she would eat him. After the mating process is done he better get out of there, eight times out of ten the males typically get eaten. After the female lays her eggs in her burrow she will then leave the burrow and build a new one. Once the eggs hatch some of them will eat each other the rest will swim out of the burrow and start their own lives.

## Adaptations

Their three most notable adaptations are their naked mole rat like ability to slow down or stop bodily functions in order to wait out times of hardship, they're big hands, and the little appendages on their hands that can be mistaken for sea grass or worms by pray. This last adaptation would go even further when it evolves into an entire family a wish that have plant-like appendages on their hands, they used this both as camouflage from predators and to lure in plant-eating prey.

## Threats

They were the apex predator in their area, so the only thing they had to worry about eating them or other ones of their own kind. Other environmental threats include getting caught in the Rapids and getting washed away bumping into stuff and diseases.

## Additional Information

**Discovery**: The first fossil specimen was discovered by Jürgen Müller while he was digging a hole for an unknown reason, he says he was drunk and doesn't remember why he was digging the hole. He named the specimen The Perfect Butt Slapping Hand. His brothers have renamed the specimen to something a bit more professional, renaming it to specimen J Müller 19847, but they kept the original name as a nickname for the specimen. The original specimen was just one hand. Later specimens revealed more of the body.

**Name** **of** **the** **person** **who** **discovered** **it**: Jürgen Müller

**Jokes**: N/A

**Intelligents** **Level**: near human-level intelligence on the lower end of it probably has a cognitive abilities of a two-year-old.

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

**Assessment**: Because humans are too big to be pray for this wish, if it did grab a hold of a human it might immediately Let It Go and cower in fear, but there's still a chance it could accidentally kill a human if it decides to fight and it bites a vital artery. This wish was probably an introvert so the chances of that happening are Slim, but never zero. So it's a proceed with caution. ❗

## 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

Genus: *Manustrapdoora*

Subgenus: Kakomatia

Species: ***Manustrapdoora kryftisapothanatos***

No adding subspecies here, only planned on there being one.