Pterygiodaktylou richardi

**Pterygiodaktylou richardi** (Richard's finger fin in Greek) is one of the surviving species of The End Of Times Mass Extinction Event. And is one of only a few species to evolve during the extinction event. The extinction event started 333,333,333 years ago, and fossil evidence shows that this species evolved 333,000,000 years ago, the reason why it evolved so fast is due to Rapid evolution. Its point of origin is somewhere in South Primaterra, where exactly is still unknown. This species would go on to give rise to every modern-day species of Pterygiodaktylou, and is the first species in the subclade Euneopterygiodaktylou. It died out around 328mya due to being out competed by the species that evolved from it as well as other species that didn't evolve from it. The females could get up to two feet long, while the males usually got up to one foot long, the females are usually a foot tall, while the males are usually six inches tall, the females are usually 6 inches wide, while the males are only 5 inches wide. Their lifespan it's unknown but a rough estimate says 40 to 50 years for females, while 30 to 40 years for males, these estimates are based off of modern day Pterygiodaktylou, most surviving species in the genus today have those numbers, while some species live shorter, and some can live longer, most have that, so it is a safe bet.

## Evolution

They evolved from Pterygiodaktylo **survivormepentedachtyla**, they are distinguished from **survivormepentedachtyla** by the holes in the skull where the whisacles come out are smaller, meaning that the whisacles were probably smaller and thinner or at least thinner then **survivormepentedachtyla's** whisacles**.** The reason for thinner whisacles is probably to reduce drag in fast-moving Rapids. This species is the first species in the subclade Euneopterygiodaktylou, and would go on to give rise to every modern-day species of Pterygiodaktylou. It may have also given rise to a few other genera.

## Anatomy

### Head

Their head region is where the brain, the eyes, the mouth, teeth, tongue, ears, and the whisacles are kept. Their brain is a bit bigger than the average Earth fish, it controls the whole body. Its eyes are on stalks like a snail, and have the ability to be retracted just like a snail, or should we say extended, because of the environment it lives in it works the opposite of every other Genera in this family, because it lives in fast flowing rapid water it's eyes are default retracted, and because of this fast flowing murky water it has lost the decent eyesight of it's ancestors, instead going for eyesight that can barely make out shapes, it mostly relies on its sense of smell and hearing. It's mouth is where it breathes and eats food. It has razor sharp teeth for eating meat. It's tongue is mostly used as a swallow assist, but does have the five tastes that we do, but they are primitive versions. They use their ear stones to both hear and maintain balance. Their whisacles are not as long as they are in other Genera, but are also not shortened to the point of being vestigial, because of their poor eyesight the only thing they have to rely on is their sense of smell, so they cannot completely get rid of their whisacles, but the typical whisacles create drag, so they have shortened them down halfway finding the perfect balance. They have two gill slits on either side of the neck, they pump water into their mouth, absorbing oxygen using their gills, and then send the water out the gill slits.

### Body

#### Outsides

Their body consist of scales all over the whole body, six leg like fins with "hands" on the ends of them, one fin on the back instead of the usual three fins, and a prehensile tail with no fin. The scales are speculated to be a muddy Brown to maybe a muddy yellow color, considering that fast-flowing Rapids are usually muddy. It has two sets of pectoral fins and one set of pelvic fins, and at the end of each fin is a "webbed five-fingered hand", hand is in quotations because unlike our hands the fingers on this hand aren't as jointed, they evolved from rays just like the digits of tetrapods on Earth and Septempollicems on Hume III, but didn't evolve exactly like those instead evolving more like the sea robin's legs on Earth, and the Hume III's armored sea robin's legs on Hume III. These hands and fingers are used to hold onto rocks at the bottom of the river bank, so that the fast-moving rapids don't carrie the wish away. It has lost most of the fins on its back, but has retained one for an unknown reason. The tail is prehensile and is used (just like the hands) to help it grip onto rocks, but it's also to use for balance.

#### Insides

Their bones are made of calcium. They have a closed circulatory system and a central nervous system. Their blood is red. They have a brain. They have two hearts, one of them being reduced. A set of lungs. As well as stomach, intestines, liver, kidneys, all that good stuff. They do not have a penis instead they have a cloaca, they mate by putting the cloaca together.

## Habitat

They were known to be found in fast flowing Rapid Rivers all around South Primaterra. This entire genus is found in fast flowing Rapids, so that's probably where is most likely to be found. But this species could have also been found in lakes and ponds as well.

## Diet

Unlike most Genera in this family, this genus are complete omnivores, with 50% of their diet is plant and the other 50% is meat. The reason for this is because it's easier to catch plants in fast-moving Rapids then it is to catch other animals.

## Breeding

Unlike most other Genera in this family, this genus does not do the whole female lays down pheromones and then the males fight over who gets to mate thing, that style does not work in the environment they live in. Whenever a male happens upon a female they will use their hands to latch onto the female and hold on for dear life, then the male will not let go until the female has laid her eggs. The process of fertilization is achieved by placing one's cloaca upon the others cloaca. After the eggs have been fertilized internally she will find a not so rapid area to lay her eggs in typically in between rocks or in some kind of Nook or cranny, but sometimes she will use her hands to dig a nice hole to leave them in. Once they hatch they're on their own.

## Adaptations

Their most notable adaptation is their naked mole rat-like ability to slow down or shut down all bodily functions in times of hardship such as a lack of oxygen, this is how they survive The End Of Times Extinction Event. Their next notable adaptation is the fact that they have five fingers (three normal fingers and two thumbs) on each one of their six leg like fins. Their last most notable adaptation is there gut, it's more suited for plants than any other genus in the family.

## Threats

Their threats that they had to deal with on a daily basis were not getting a good grip on a rock and getting carried away by the Rapids, the Rapids carrying something down the river bumping into them at high speeds, and finally another one of their own kind. The waters they lived in we're too fast for Ilektrika pezoporos, so they didn't have to worry about that, what they did have to worry about was another Genus that evolved from them a few million years before the extinction event, commonly known as trapdoor jumpers, a few of those lived in the same area as **Pterygiodaktylou richardi** so there is a chance they could get caught by one of them. Other than that they had nothing to worry about.

## Additional Information

**Discovery**: it was discovered by Dr. Richard S. **Drabulous**. He found it in The **Drabulous** Formation, the original specimen was just a singular fin arm, originally thought to be a **survivormepentedachtyla** arm, but later they went back and found the rest of the body, showing it to be a different species.

**Name of the person who discovered it**: Dr. Richard S. **Drabulous**

**Jokes**: Maybe this wish was good at Handy work! XD

**Intelligents Level**: near human levels of intelligence

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

**Assessment**: Going off of modern surviving species in this Genus, it was probably pretty safe, and here's why. It was too small to really do anything major unless it happens to bite onto a major artery. And if you're at the bottom of a rapid moving River you have other problems to worry about than some random wish, but some African tribes on Earth as well as some tribes on Hume III, have to sometimes dive into rapid moving Waters to untangle their fish nets from the bottom of the river, so if you're one of those people then don't worry this thing's harmless to you, because it's not going to worry about you, unless you attack it, it's not going to waste energy to try to get you when there's a high chance it could get washed down the river anyway, so it's not going to even attempt, it will only attack if you try to grab it. So safe. 👍

## 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: **Pterygiodaktylou**

Clade: Neopterygiodaktylou

Subclade: Euneopterygiodaktylou

Species: **Pterygiodaktylou richardi**