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Trollorm

Trollorms are a troglodytic species of caudalian that adapted to live at very low light levels. despite being mostly found in caves under Nispe's seas, they have found their way into the pillar gardens thanks to the tunneler sgrab's tunnels.

another branch of finworms decided instead to found refuge in a little, newly forming ecosystem inside the very pillar lettuces. the trollorms are small and short-stacked, but still possess long fins for swimming around during night, when they will eat most of their herbivorous intake. during daylight thought, they will seek hiding among the tunneler sgrab's tunnels, orienteering themselves with their extremely long whiskers. speaking of those, many trollorms possess mineralized ends on them, which allow for even greater sensibility thanks to electrochimical properties of the pillar's material. they may however have to fend off the voracious tunneler sgrabs creating the very tunnels they hide in. to avoid getting eaten even here, trollorms tend to find refuge on the deepest ones, far from dangers, but in case it gets annoyed it will become extremely aggressive, poking and biting out violently the intruders, even including their own conspecifies. only during mating season their tendencies will loosen up, only to come back even stronger after the eggs will be laid in selected hideouts on the tunnels.
Fishworm

Fishworms (also called wormfish) are Notochordates among the most common free-swimming creatures of Nispe's seas.

### **Anatomy**

Fishworm's bodies consist basically on a thin, rod-like structure, supported by a notochord. a series of cartilaginous rings add additional support to the structure, making this creature one of the most evolved of Nispe's Very Early Era. on the top end there's a mouth, containing dozens of tiny needle-like fins as well as being the main breathing organ (outside of the dermis), while on the other one a flat, horizontal fin and the anus. they are rather short, no longer than an inch and half.

### **Biology**

They live under Spike Lettuce forests, but sometimes they venture in areas nearby (up until 100 m.i.d.), or in the open ocean itself. grazing on the foliage in hundreds, they prefer to aggregate in shoals as a method of defense (they aren't quite quick really)

#### **Diet**

Fishworms eat almost exclusively plant foliage, but will sometimes try to eat anything small enough to be munched on nearby, such as Shellyfishes's tentacles. they may also eat zooplankton, altought they prefer lettuce foliage for the higher energy intake.

#### **Reproduction**

Fishworms reproduce by gamete spreading. after fecundation, the eggs will then develop in larvaes that will be part of the zooplankton up until maturity (which takes a few weeks)

### **History**

developed straight from the Bilatera phylum, fishworms were one of the various species emerged from the Very Early Era. they were very abundant and undisturbed in their biome for most of the Early Era (aside from predatorial xenions), being also the very first species to colonize the Low-Tide Gardens. on later periods, thought, predators, and most of all competitors, arose among various branches, including shellyfishes, xenish and their very descendants, which have put them at risk of extinction.
Stonola

Stonolas are big, pelagic xenicthyans, adapted to live under and feed off spike lettuce forests. they evolved from the xenish, but they have somewhat re-evolved the ability to develop shell covers for their bodies.

in a bizarre cycle of "aberrant" re-emergence of certain characteristics, some xenish end up developing a shell not unlike their ancestors. but the real deal with this is the development of flat tooths, that will permit a certain breed of them to switch for a less cruent lifestyle. enter the stonola, one of the biggest pelagic lifeform of the forests. munching away on roots in an uncanningly similiar fashion to the so distant fishworms, it is the demonstration, more of the xenish's adaptability, of how a bilateral bodyplan is, not surprisingly, preferrable to a radial one. the stonola, fundamentally invincible thanks to the sheer size and shell, has also developed bigger fins to aid with the long distances it eventually has to traverse for the food. the beaked secondsex, always following it's bigger partner, can now pride itself of not being just a mere reproductory organ with the development of a dedicated digestive organ. still, lacking the adaptations that made the fortune of their fiancees, they have to watch out and hide from dangers, while munching away some sweet lettuce foliage.
Charibdos

The Charibdos is an abyssal monocephalian, evolved from the scilliya. it repurposed one of the tentacles as a bioluminescent lure.

Charibdos: the ancient scilliya species has remained a fairly succesful bodyplan, spreading out in almost every environement in the seas, including even the middle sea of Labia. however, they are not exempt frmo the casuality of evolution. an abyssal race of scilliya has evolved to become the most fearsome predator of the environement. the charibdos is twice the size of a normal scilliya, and it hunts by baiting it's prey among the dark . it's an extremely slow creature, but despite that it has evolved elaborate movement systems, both by developing a wavy mono-fin around it's shell, by developing a fleshy fin on it's bottom as a rudder and by enlarging to ridiculous sizes it's only remaining mouth-jet. in fact, the charibdos' most important characteristic is the asymmetricality of it's front section: while the two mouths have fused into a single, enormous one, one of the tentacles atrophied drastically to be used as a mere sensoty organ, as well as retaining one less organ to sustain. instead, this tentacle has developed the ability to retain bioluminescent microorganisms, which are used to lure near it it's preys, which are then quickly snatched by the large, dominant tentacle. the charibdos is an extremely slow hunter, as it can wait for months without a prey. they rarely even move, and their once-characteristic water-jetting is virtually absent, save for extreme emergencies. to mate, thought, they leave the abysses to reach lower depths, searching a mate with all of their energy. if they manage to find one, they will mate vigorously, quickly deposit their eggs and die from exhaustion. many also die during the search, either form depleting their energy or popping inside-out from decompression, therefore the population of this weird species is always at a low number.
Sticky Sgrab

Sticky Sgrabs are tiny descendants of pesky sgrabs which adapted to feed off the various algaes that grow over pillar lettuces. they have the ability to retain oxygen to avoid predators and eat at the pillar's tops, outside the water.

### **Anatomy**

the morphology of sticky sgrabs is unique in their family: the whole foot evolved to become extremely adherent to it's surface by becoming one, big and powerful suction cup, while teh rest of the body became even smaller to accomodate to a simpler and slow lifestyle. both the shell and the beak are even tougher than those of their ancestors, the latter useful to scrape off plant matter and algaes from the pillars. an unique characteristic among any animal on Nispe, sticky sgrabs are able to hold their breath for hours in order to reach the out-surfaced, algae-rich tips of the pillar lettuces.

### **Biology**

these minuscule animals live on pillar lettuces, on both the biomes these are found on. they are simple animals that eat costantly, while trying to avoid predators both with physical adaptations and hiding among the denser parts of the pillars, or outside of water for the time it takes to be safe. it is to note that many a sticky sgrab's entire existences can happen on one single pillar, from life to death, showing how deeply attached tese creatures are to the plant they find home into.

#### **Diet**

Sticky sgrabs simply eat plant matter, whether pillar lettuces or algaes, from the pillars they live in.

#### **Reproduction**

mating is still retained, as a praxis for all scutocephalans. however, pillar lettuces cannot retain the eggs easily. these, laid in hundreds even for a single individual, fall off from the pillar to hit the bottom floor. from that, if a pillar is nearby (not necessarily the one they came from), the larvaes will have to climb out all of it in order to reach the safer spaces, growing as their journey continues.

### **History**

sticky sgrabs evolved on tandem with pillar lettuces, nearly 30 mya, from pesky sgrabs. they became a common sight on these plants, being a common prey for many animals, from carrys to raptworms.
Chelworm

Chelworms are lithe, but still rather big relatives of the dinworms, which adapted for a higher-speed lifestyle. they are found not only in pillar forests, but also around the shallower waters where bud lettuces grow.

the arms race innescated by the fearsome novish didn't limit itself ro raptworms. their fearsome plates put the dinworm at risk too, and evolution came in with yet another response to the predatorial menace. chelworms are fast and lithe descendats of them, specialized in being quick over being big. while the body has elongated (and unfatened) itself, the back fin got sharper and, aided by the spine, more powerful to act as the main safety escape device. the flap fins, meanwhile, have further developed into actual flappers, aiding both in precise maneuvers and in giving a notable push to start the runaway. even the eyes have gotten better, being for example one of the firsts in the seas to be able to see colors, and to compensate a bigger brain has developed. but even if this last one, of all the adaptations, may be the most interesting from an evolutionary radiation standpoint, it is better kept well fed with costant green-munching. bud lettuces are especially a favourite of them.
Keaworm

Keaworms were predatorial descendants of the parrotworms, and fed mostly on sgrabs and other parrotworm-derived species.

### **Anatomy**

despite the behavioural change, keaworms are quite similiar to their ancestors. the only notable differences are a stronger, muscle-backed beak to crush preys with and a pair of nostrils at the to of the head, serving as the main sensory organ of the animal as well as aiding in breathing. a sleeker shape helps them in being quicker, at the cost of stability against the tides' constant trashing.

### **Biology**

keaworms are the main predators of the low-tide gardens; despite their rather small size, they can deal nasty blows to their preys, and crush pesky sgrabs in their beaks. despite that, they have the tendency to hunt in a pretty confusing and disorganized way, dealing quick blows with their beaks before giving up. however, many of them (they are rather tolerating between each other's presence) can become very dangerous, able to even take down tanks such as trumplers.

#### **Diet**

strictly carnivore, the keaworm hunts anything from small animals like the sgrabs to big-sized grazers like the moaworms. they are careless hunters, among many things, but will quickly give up if they aren't succesful after a few blows.

#### **Reproduction**

keaworms have adapted the tendency to mate seasonally off-shore to avoid the dangers of it's own biome that can be arrecated to their eggs. particularly, they have re-developed the spreading strategy of their distant ancestors, deposing thousands of eggs. these, after being fertilized in the sea, are left to themselves, with very few fries reaching adulthood.

### **History**

the keaworms evolved during the early Benician, along with the pinworms and the moaworms (a variation of the same, big-beaked parrotworm ancestor) during the pesky sgrab's spread in the low-tide gardens that endangered the environement. these creatures, over all, helped rebalancing the biome by covering natively the predatorial niche. along with many parrotworms, they too crossed over in the pillar forests exchange, spawining a new lineage of quick and clever hunters: the raptworms. as the ocean levels decreased at the end of the era, keaworms lost their environement, but unlike their close cousins, it managed to survive and readapt among the lower pillar gardens that survived. while it also managed to get over the B-Ch boundary extinction, the species soon fell for much more evolved predators that evolved and survived in the new era, but not before spawning another lineage: the wide-billed, shell-eater billorm.
Arrowgnat

Arrowgnats are freshwater scutocephalian that, from land ancestors, readapted to live fully underwater. they are the first free-swimming scutocephalian ever evolved, inhabiting mainly the Great Lake region.

even water grubs weren't left aside on the ever-changing holean environement, despite the cetorm affair that happened a few millions of years ago. while on land the hung grubs were getting both displaced by better adapted slit grubs and hunted by keramouths, to the point of facing extinction, on water a more traditional population has started to develop. their sticky foot helped them gain success on this environement since the very start, by being able to hold on much better to the bed than the local grubs. but with the rise of predators, both coming from land and from the seas, the population was left endangered again. not being as small as some of the live grubs, being able to hide under rocks or outright ignores, or not being as big as plate grubs, inversely, with their heavy shell, a brand new route had to be undertook by the aquatic hung grubs; a small, fin-like protrusion appeared on the end of the creature, where the last segment would otherwise be, allowing the creature to swim away in a clumsy dolphin-style way from dangers, while the rest of the shell became much lighter to make this new defense method reliable (with the exception of a tough, large head plate, which has evolved in this way both for hydrodynamicity and, strangely, to head-butt predators away). the new resulting species is the arrowgnat, a medium-sized, free-swimming scutocephalan that inhabits all of the river system up to the great lake, becoming the most succesful member of the ecosystem. moving in quite large shoals, they have adapted at filter feeding the plankton-rich environement of the eastern lake river system, provided with small bristles capable of collecting food, which is in turn then brought to a beakless mouth also adapted at suction feeding.
Shutter Bud

Shutter Buds are terrestrial synthesizers, found in the wetlands of the western front of Labia. they get the name from their characteristic shutter that protects the cilias from cold and predators.

another new species has adapted two whole ways to avoid predators. the shutter bud is aptly named for it's ability to close off the cilias with an unpenetrable shell, derived from the lid found between them and the body, but has also evolved the ability to walk. with myriads of small tubes underside, it moves at an extremely slow pace, but with great costancy. no shutter bud is found in the same place from one day to another; their walking behaviour, associated with their colonial behaviour, allowed them to improve their reproductive behaviour by fetilizing their eggs each other, herding together in a weird mating ritual in hich every individual trades gametes with each other throught the jointers, before leaving them to the wind's fate.
Tough Lettucegrass

Tough Lettucegrasses are widely spread descendants of the benois lettucegrass. ditching their ancestor's waste expel strata, they reinforce their own broad leaves with the mineral wastes, making them hard to chew and digest for most animals of the seas.

on the further edges of the current-touched Middle Sea itself a new species of benois lettuce started taking over. the tough lettucegrass, at first glance, even resembles the bud lettuce more than it's ancestor, but that's because it has taken a new step in waste management, resulting especially in a practically absent calcium growth: this time, the plant itself embraces and absorbs in itself the waste, making the whole structure, from roots to leaves, overall a lot tougher. in particular, the nucleus, even more prevalent than in any other lettuce, somewhat takes the place of the nucleus itself. luckily thought, it is a controlled process which only mineralizes certain parts of the organ (such as, in the case of the nucleus, it's external crust), avoiding total mineralization from the plant. despitre this, it heavily relies on getting grazed on by herbivores in order to maintain a stable waste balance, but very few creatures can actually digest this heavy plant. therefore, as of now, it is only fed on by the ornorms, which possess a gut elaborate enough to digest it. while it's lack of the substrate makes it possible for it to get uprooted, the core is strong and unappetizing enough that, while surviving off the shared rooting, it can regrow it's leaves quite easily. while it is only found on sparse locations over the northern middle sea, it is sure that this well-adapted and resilient plant will manage to grow even further across Nispe's shallow seas with time, and maybe even become the first lettuce to reach the beaches.
Finworm

Finworms are small and widespread notochordates evolved from pinworms. these shoalers are found especially in spike lettuce forests and fan reefs.

### **Anatomy**

the finworm's adaptations are a far call from it's ancestors: for starters, it's typical fin is a lot flatter, with the lower end of the body acting as the main force for movement. finworms are thus capable of swimming with both a horizontal and vertical orientation. alongside that, the beak and the whiskers have become more prominent, the latter acting as the main sensory organ of the species. while finworms are still quite small, they can grow up to a considerable 4 incher, and are much bigger than the pinworm in average.

### **Biology**

Finworms are very prominent species in plant-rich biomes such as pillar and spike lettuce forests, of which they take the role of most widespread consumers, but are sometimes also found in the fan reefs. as such, they are always at the bottom of the food chain. finworms simply defend themselves with the sheer number of their own in shoals, but are also quite quick and organized, sometimes overcoming predators with distracting tactics.

#### **Diet**

like their ancestors, finworms are mainly herbivores, but they won't disdain an easy protein source like eggs once in a while to integrate in their diet.

#### **Reproduction**

finworms have convergently re-adapted to spreading reproduction like their far ancestors, the fishworms. after getting the eggs fertilized, these will be layed sparsely and in great quantities all over, where they will quickly hatch into fries.

### **History**

evolving shortly after the beginning of the mid-Early era, finworms quickly saw great success in their niche, spreading all over Nispe's seas. in particular, it has succesfully overcompeted their distant ancestors, the fishworms, in the spike lettuce forests.
Earth Pillar

Earth Pillars are synthesizers that adapted for a fully terrestrial lifestyle, anchoring to the underground with claw-like feets.

another synthesizer has fixed the problem by leaving the marshes altogether. the earthpillar is the first of the clade to ever adapt to a fully terrestrial lifestyle, as it completely anchors itself half-underground. underside cilias, which resemble those of the ancient sea balls, are used to absorb water and any nutrients possible from the ground, but due to their relative efficiency, it bounds the species to humid environements only. the jointers have been forced to stick out of the ground, and sport a fan of eggs to let the wind blow during mating season. if fertrilized, the egg germinates underground, like a seed, making it's way deeper with claw-like tentacles as it grows.
Skate Crab

Skate Crabs are particular descendants of shallow crabs, which more than anything else adapted to grow in size. they are decently quick, and even well defended with a sharp blade-like tail.

### **Anatomy**

Skate crabs possess long, thin plates that give it it's characteristic ray-like appearance. a bigger foot-body helps the animal in moving and digging swiftly, with the underside covered in a hardy but smooth film which avoids abrasions with the sand and allows it to slide even more easily on the sea floor. on the end of the body there's a long blade which serves as a mean of intimidating predators. despite that, there are junctures between the plates to keep them flexible, but are a very weak spot for the creature. it is one of the biggest scutocephalan regarding it's average size, usually reaching around 70 cms to 1 metre in length.

### **Biology**

the skate crabs are swift bottom predators, found in many empty biomes such as sand flats and abyssal plains. scurrying across the sea floor, they search for preys for most of their time, but still having to watch ou for occasional predators such as scilliyas. their main method of defense, aside from digging themselves up, is raising it's tail blade and swinging it in front of the predator. they are most active in night-time.

#### **Diet**

skate crabs feed off small, bottom-dwelling animals (like small scutocephalans and bicephalians), but won't disdain carcasses and even a few plant matter whenever it can find those.

#### **Reproduction**

like every other species of it's class, skate crabs reproduce by mating. once fertilized, the eggs will be left inside a small burrow, which will then be covered up and the larvaes left to themselves.

### **History**

skate crabs apeared only recently in the fossil records, about 12 mya, in the middle of the late Early era. they have become quite widespread and succesful over time, but have not reached the amount of success other creatures like pesky sgrabs and it's ancestors, the shallow crabs, have managed to get.
Rapier Crab

Rapier Crabs were predatorial swimming crabs that lived in the middle sea. their main hunting method was piercing the prey from under, often alongside other hunting companions. they went extinct in the mid orchidian.

Rapier Crab: even if they are the main predators of the middle sea, swimming crabs have never went further than at least a hundred of kilometres offshore. eventually, even this limit is surpassed as a new, formidable species evolves specifically to hunt in the inner regions: the rapier crab has evolved the most flexible, light and hydrodynamic plates of the group, along with a powerful tail and efficient gills, able to take as much oxygen as possible in a scarce environement. despite this, it rarely ever reaches over one metre in length, but is still a terrifying menace to the yauub, their favourite preys. leaving behind the ambush tactics (and the oil propulsion), these active swimmers prefer to charge full-speed at their prey, often along with a few hunting partners, and thrust their straight, pointy blade deep into the skin of the unfortunate. even if this strategy is not foolproof, the yauub population has taken serious damages over this, which has made these magnificent aquatic rostrilians even rarer in the middle sea's waters.
Pinprick Nettle

Pinprick Nettles are small, but very widespread retiarians which have developed the ability to grow corals over themselves to protect from the environement. they are a key species on the formation of the fan reefs biome.

### **Anatomy**

Pinprick nettles are substantially not very different from their ancestors: they still retain all of their major characteristics, like the net-mouth, but are just way smaller. the true difference lays in it's coralline growths, born from their waste and adhibited at housing and protecting their colony and themselves. all members of a pinprick colony are able to retract inside their hideout to protect from predators. sometimes different colonies may merge by coming in contact during their growth.

### **Biology**

these retiarians are among the key species in the formation of the fan reefs biome, rich and colourful jungles of coral in which many animals find food and protection. while pinpricks are generally shunned by most predators, they may have to watch out from specialized hunters such as wasp worms and pinker sgrabs.

#### **Diet**

their diet consists especially of filter feeding plankton and useful substances from water. unlike their ancestors, they don't tend to hard organic particles.

#### **Reproduction**

pinprick nettle's reproduction strategy is mating, usually between members of the same colony or nearby ones by spreading their gametes. the few lucky ones that survive their initial egg and planktonic phases will then soon start building their own refuge, eventually kickstarting a new colony. hermaproditism and asexual methods of reproductions are still retained, albeit very rare.

### **History**

first appearing 43 mya, pinprick nettles are a very succesful key species, which are agreed on to mark the first boundary between the end of the first and the start of the second phases of the Early era. very few dangers have inflicted themselves upon this species, along with it's "sister" relatives, the labyrinth fan and the hammer nettles, with which shares the biome and the time preiod in which they were born.
Panic-Tail

Panic-Tails are an offshoot of nightcrawlers that evovled in a boggy, haze-covered environement flanking the northern mountain ranges. they have, however, unique improvements upon their ancestors' body plan.

Panic-Tail: inhabiting the plains and groves in the eastern side of the middle sea, just behind the great eastern range of labia, this creature has adapted to a peculiar environement characterized by costant fog during most of the year. thanks to this, it's nocturnal behaviour is inhibite, allowing it to leave to hunt even during the day. the feelers have further elongated, becoming dexterous palps useful both for hunting as for sensory perception. the legs have further evolved, even as far as creating a sort of kneecap to allow it to run at even quicker speeds than before. it's reproduction characteristics, however, are even weirder. to mate, the panic-tail signals it's presence with loud calls and by rising up it's brigthly coloured tail. while this is also used for predators alerts among their similiars, the two situations possess different calls. alongside that, thanks to the high humidity of the area, the panic-tail is able to lay eggs almost out of water: these eggs are highly evolved, possessing a thin shell which preotects it from excessive moisture loss, as well as being well-sized and rich of nutrients to allow further development of the fries. in the end, the eggs themselves can go into hibernation for up to a few weeks in case of near-dehydration. thanks to this, their spawn can be protected from the risk of dessication of pools and ponds, predilected places for the panic-tail to lay it's eggs into.
Fort Lettucegrass

The Fort Lettucegrass is a land-based benoisial that, like it's distant cousin, the succugrass, relies on symbiotic chromistids to live. this weird offshoot of the ground lettucegrass has evolved spikey growths on the back of it's leaves in order to make itself undesirable to herbivores.

plants on the outside world have not been diversifying during this time, preventing further evolution of the land ecosystems; ironically, thought, the most recent species evolved tries it's very best not to be eaten. descended from ground lettucegrasses which have come in contact with crawling mycelium, the fort lettucegrass, by itself, resembles quite a lot it's ancestor. while it has convergently evolved a similiar reproduction system to the succugrasses, it's similiarities to it end there, whith small, low and fat leaves adapted at retaining water as much as they can, and teh total absence of a trunk. it also retains it's ancestor's anachronistic waste expulsion system, but repurposed in a much weirder way: waste expellers are located under the leaves themselves, and redirected to form scrawny, but costantly growing spikes. to avoid that said spikes are targeted by mycelium and sleeping moss, thin films of waste also grow around and over the plant, in an attempt to keep these fed without spreading over the spikes. but in the end, the latter are not the real deal for the plant (as they are so thin only small animals will have a problem with them): the moss growths on the leaves give these a grossly unappealing appearance, enough to repel even the hungriest of the herbivores... side from slit grubs, which would promptly adapt to any kind of food. while a weird, and arguably unsuccesful genre, lifeforms such as this are a common, maybe ephemeral occurences on the path of evolution, which demonstrates how in the end, it' all pure casuality.
Labyrinth Fan

Labyrinth Fans are colonial organisms descended from rock nettles. they grow giant formations as their home, which eventually form the foundations of the fan reefs biome.

### **Anatomy**

Like their relatives, the pinprick nettles, labyrinth fans are a collective of nettles living together in their own grown formation. unike them, thought, the animals themselves are extremely small and transparent, similiar in appearance to a retiarian larva. their formation assumes a sprawling and labyrinthic appearance, where the top surfaces hide among the crevices myriads of the creatures. stuck in their own coral, which grows relatively quickly by secreting a gel-like substance, they can only close their fans as a form of defence. thanks to these adaptations, they can grow to enormous sizes; in this way, they give protection and food for many other animals in their environement.

### **Biology**

one of the main coral-making lifeforms of the fan reefs, they are especially found at much deeper levels than their counterparts, even up to near-abyssal levels, thanks to their adaptations. despite this, only a few animals feed on them, mainly coral-eating scutocephalans like stilt sgrabs and peeking crabs. however, agrressive plants such as foul mosses can also deal serious damages to their systems.

#### **Diet**

like all retiarians, labyrinth fans can both filter feed and eat organic particles that can get stuck on their mouths. this genre is especially adapted for the former method.

#### **Reproduction**

like most retiarians, they reproduce sexually by spreading. while the fertilized eggs and polyps can be counted to the millions, almost none will reach maturity. among their colony, asexual reproduction is almost universal, meaning that most of the animals of a colony are, in fact, clones. occasionally, part of a colony breaking off can help quickly spread the species.

### **History**

first arisen in the early benician, labyrinth fans were among the first species that contributed to the formation of the fan reefs. like most species of this biome, they too suffered a great range reduction in the benician-chodician mass extinction, and since then they are relegated to the southern seas of holea, as well as tiny, fragmented populations on the northern seas. one lineage has spawned a descendant evolved to live on the northern and middle seas praires.
Qulob

Qulobs were keramouths descended from the toporm, notable for their very weird anatomy. they resided in the equatorial zone, but went extinct due to the ice ages.

Qulob: it is in the inner forests, instead, that perphaps the weirdest descendant of the toporm evolved. the lithe qulob has not only developed their back limbs as somewhat usable legs, but also gained a rather advanced, quadrupedal gait similiar to that of reptiles. despite this, even with a convergent evolution of a shoulder, their bones are still unadapted to this position: however, they have become elastic and semi-cartilagineous to maintain both rigidity and flexibility, alongside strong muscles. the qulob, therefore, has adapted to (rather awkwardly) walk around the groves, in search of small slit grubs and plant matter. like the freek, with which shares a distant relationship, it does not estivate, and has atrophied feelers used for hearing. they are rather sociable, not loathing the presence of each other but that may have to change soon.
Warden Moss

The Warden Moss was a species of chromistid that evolved in the early orchidian. to defend itself from herbivores, it developed hallucinogenic toxins on the fruits. due to the increasing cold, the species went extinct in the mid-orchidian.

Warding Moss: in another form of takeover, a species of deep moss started to cover a role previously carried over by the sleeping moss, but with more efficiency. the warding moss is in appearance very similiar to it's ancestor, adapted to grow over pine succugrasses, and are able to reach out the sun more easily by doing so. unfortunately, if they are not kept in control by herbivores, they can overcome the leaves of the plant itself, and even kill it in the process. one weird method of defense from bigger herbivores for their spore buds is the development of a non-lethal toxin, which is produced in high quantities in mature ones. if an animal eats it, it will have psychedelic effects on their brain, confusing and hampering it in the process. while it keeps them wary from eating these appetizable baits, some species may resort to feed off the less delicious, but safe undeveloped buds.
Pine Succugrass

Pine Succugrasses are land benoisials that adapted a seasonal growth cycle against the cold. due to this, they have overtaken the archaic succugrasses as the main vegetation of holea.

Pine Succugrass: the direct descendants of the archaic succugrasses have developed a trick to survive the harsher conditions of the new era: during winter and drought seasons, their growth and metabolism slows down considerably, not growing anymore. in this way, they can somewhat cope with the unfavourable period. alongside that, the oldest leaves harden to discourage herbivores, but also in a way they die off to leave room for newest plants, balancing the transpiration activity of the plant. the pine succugrass has been spreading from it's original range in the holean river systems and great lake to reach nearby, non-desertic environements, and will most probably kickstart the further spread of land life in the planet.
Melonlettuce

Melonlettuces are freshwater descendants of the deadman lettuce, evolved after the engulfment of the Middle Sea into the supercontinent of Labia. the hard shell in their bladders protect an otherwise frail plant, the last of the floating lettuces.

Melonlettuce: while gradually evolving during all of the chodicene, the deadman lettuce has never gone far from it's original appearance. however, the new environement on the middle sea forced this relic species to re-adapt to a drastically new location. the melonlettuce looks more lively than it's ancestor, but also has to watch out from predators: therefore, the hard bladders have remained, as well as the shorter roots. however, not much can be done against the overgrowth of the leaves, which often grow to reach the water. as such, it still remains a viable source of food; and an enticing one, as the rest of the plantlife is just foul moss ad shaded scrubs. but perphaps, this inconvenience could become a good thing in the future.
Trumpler

Trumplers are big, slow and hardy predators of the sea floor. derived from grand shellyfishes, they walk on the bottom grounds, grabbing anything they deem tasty enough.

### **Anatomy**

trumpler's anatomy differs very much from its relatives: the main shell has solidified, becoming a hardy and quite heavy dome against the bottom's crowded environement, and the tentacles have mutated greatly from their ancestral form. these, resembling tubes in appearance, are all fleshy opposed to the spindly ones before, munited of small spikes at the end of each which aid on supporting the whole body. the tentacles can as well grapple food to bring it under the mouth, which is located under the dome with the rest of the main body.the tentacles are even capable of lenghtening and shortening when necessary, thanks to hydraulic dilation of the blood vessels. despite their lifestyle, they are rather slow-living animals, but can also reach up to centimetres in diameter, with particularly lucky specimens reaching even larger sizes.

### **Biology**

the trumplers are slow, bottom-feeder hunters of Nispe's sea floor, found in many biomes typical of the level (including the low-tide gardens). they tend to stay low to avoid the predators, while scurrying around for food. they tend to search inside tunnels in search of digging animals for easy meals. a solitary animal by habit, they can sometimes be found amassed in groups for one reason or another, like mating or (rarely) a particularly shy but sweet digging prey.

#### **Diet**

trumplers are actively carnivorous, hunting soft bottom-dwelling creatures. these may include wasp worms, amphisbenas, larvaes of sgrabs and crabs and, sometimes, even carpet needles.

#### **Reproduction**

trumplers, in their solitude, have favoured finding a mate over spreading like their cousins and ancestors. despite that, fertilization is still acted in such way even then. the larvaes compose the zooplankton, and won't come down until developed enough to possess functional legs.

### **History**

Trumplers, evolved from Grand Shellyfishes, come from the early-Early era, very diffuse among the seas of the time. once the top predators of that age, over time the evolution of better creatures, as well as the shifting of biodiversity's evolution from the sea floor to the benthic areas, have impacted the species. despite not as common and great as before, they are still found among the bottom's fauna, and have evolved a smaller form particulary adapted at living in areas otherwise unpenetrable for regular ones.
Duurab

The Duurab was a weird offshoot of the keramouths, adapted to live in freshwater systems. it grabbed small food particles and creatures with it's feelers, and then ate them with it's beakless mouth.

Duurab: meanwhile, an extremely weird new rostrilian evolves in the largest rivers of holea. as a toporm fry developed a fan-like plankton-catching organ to feed, a race of incredible semi-aquatic creatures arose. the duurab is unlike any other rostrilian, strikingly because of a lack of a beak altogether: with it's new feeding system, a beak becomes a downer, so this characteristic structure is replaces by a soft, fleshy and toothless mouth. the fans develop at the tip of the feelers, allowing easy reach to the mouth as well as any source of food. with this new lifestyle, the body also adapts, with a sleek form and wide fins derived from the main limbs, which betray it's origin. alongside that, the backfin re-developed into a flat tail, useful for slow, energy-saving swimming. found in the main river systems, as well as minor populations in the middle sea, the duurab didn't fully abandon the land: alongside it's need to heat itself and breathe, clever duurabs also come out of water to drag-fish by letting their fans catch food in particularly quick currents, porribly to avoid dangers or predators.
Xeno Onion

Xeno Onions (shortened as Xenions) are a species presenting an unique sexual dimorphism. once among Nispe's most widespread animals, they now live only in secluded areas such as the abyssal plains.

### **Anatomy**

Xenions present the greatest sexual dimorphism case on the planet: the first-sex, free-swimming, is an almond-shaped gelatinous creature, possessing a very simple digestive tract, and swims around with short fins growing on it's sides. the second-sex, instead, is completely sessile; higly resembling a sponge, it's surface is hard and calcified, littered with small pores with which it breathes and absorbs water for nutrients. at it's top there's a small beak like organ, which is the reproductory organ of the creature.

### **Biology**

Xenions are found exclusively in the Abyssal Plains. due to their nature, both sexes live a very different lifestyle: the firts-sexes swim aimlessly, eating the "food snow" falling from above, and in very rare cases will eat any creature they will stumble upon, usually other xenions. second-sexes, instead, are found in sparse, but compact small colonies across the sea floor.

#### **Diet**

despite their apprearance, both sexes can subsist off plankton, by filter feeding. however, motile forms can also prey on anything that makes contact with them, sucking them in with their mouth. sessile forms, instead, can even subsist on non-organic matter, allowing them to be highly resilient even in the most desolate places of the abysses.

#### **Reproduction**

xenions will mate at times by coming in contact with the other sex, with the motiles sharing the gametes with the sessiles in order to fertilize the eggs. these will then be expelled by the second-sexes, hatching immediately after. the larvaes, despite closely resembling motiles, are shared between both sexes, and will be part of the zooplankton until ready to mature, coming down to the lower dephts it came from.

### **History**

Once diffuse all over the oceans and found at any depht, xenions were a common sight in th earliest stages of the Early Era. the sessile forms especially built the very first reefs of Nispe. around 40-35 millions of years, new forms evolved from the species, each developed after one of the sexes, separating the genus in two brand new classes. these descendants, along with many other species, quickly overwhelmed the ancestral xenions, bringing them to extinction on lower dephts. below the 1000 metres threshold, rare members of the species still survive, thanks to the local biosphere resembling more the period in which they found success, along with many other anachronistic species.
Sunlight Rola

Sunlight Rolas are large-sized descendants of the reed rolas. as the name implies, these herbivores heat themselves by basking under the sun.

Sunlight Rola: in the northern seas, the last surviving rorolas, the reed rolas, have also set in motion to evolve and fill teh empty niches in their environement. the sunlight rola is a big, herbivorous rola, well adapted for long travels across the praires. it has gained a squarish appearance due to the reinforced plates and fins it has adapted to fend off predators, whether nabishes or the rare mackerel rovishes venturing north, but it's also got a good mobility by vigorously undulating the main fins to swim fast. one peculiarity of this species is that it has archeived temporary endothermy, thanks to a very efficient breathing system, as well as very long sunbaths during the day that heat on the blood. thanks to this, it can whitstand even polar temperatures for as long as a whole day. it has developed a migratory tendency, in which the rolas will crowd in the sigoglian sea to mate and lay their eggs at.
Drill Lettuce

Drill Lettuces (sometimes called Digging Lettuces) are descendants of the spike lettuces adapted for living in the wavy low-tide shores. their calcium growths are repurposed to anchor itself to the sand, along with a few specialized roots.

### **Anatomy**

while it still resembles it's ancestor on some grades, drill lettuces differ for various reasons. growing on the hardy shores of nispe, it has to anchor itself to the sand with it's calcium growth, but in the meantime it takes to grow, specialized roots grip the plant on it. when functionally grown, the calcium growth now spans both the upper and lower axis of the plant, and will have dug itself down enough to safely hold on for many years to come. despite this, the biggest drill lettuces don't reach the metre in height. aside from the calcium growth, drill lettuces also changed their roots and leaves: the first now grow to the sides, while the others lost the ability to retain inside floating gases.

### **Biology**

drill lettuces are found growing on the shores and low waters of many nispean seas, mainly on the middle ocean. they grow, albeir slowly, in massive colonies, which along with the unique conditions of it's location form the low-tide gardens biome.

#### **Reproduction**

while they reproduce not too dissimiliarly from the ancestors, the spores are often cast ashore in their biome: to fix this, drill lettuce's spores became heavier with the inclusion of a mineralized "gem", at the cost of fewer spores overall, which make them sink quite quickly before being thashed ashore. the gem will then detach from the spore as soon as it starts growing.

### **History**

drill lettuces were among the first new species to develop at the start of the Early era, colonizing gradually many shores during this time. while there was a short period in which the lack of predators in the low-tide gardens endangered the species, it found great success, spreading and evolving further along with the garden's inhabitants.
Gulpin Dumpler

Gulpin Dumplers are small tube dumplers, living completely under the sand substrate. while timid and weak, this species can rely on a high reproduction rate and a colonial lifestyle for it's safety.

Gulpin Dumpler: the high success of the flatfin dumpler contributed to accelerating the evolutionary rate of the genre, and eventually spawned a new species: the gulpin dumpler is generally smaller than the flatfin, but is much more adapted to the coastal life, dense of dangers but also food. even if they look virtually the same, the gulpin possesses a smaller shell and the back tentacles have developed into full-fledged anchor points to stick to the sand. living in enormous colonies, the gulpin dumplers benefit of quick reflexes and environemental blending to avoid predators, but are nothenless one of the most reliable food sources for the coastal animals.
Groundbore Skub

The Groundbore Skub is a species of halluciscutan that has adapted for a burrowing lifestyle. therefore, the characteristic legs are atrophied in them.

Groundbore Skub: again, the quirk sgrab lineag produce an extremely weird new species. the groundbore skub is adapted to live in barren environements, including abysses, and has found an efficient way of protection by digging itself a hole. in this case, the species adapted to become longer to be more comfortable in it's hideout, as well as mimetizing easily on the sea floor. due to this, the stilts have shrunk drastically, in order to not become such an hinderance to the animal. the groundbore skub is a solitary beast, which waits for passerby animals on which it feeds on. while it's main preys are small creatures to catch and eat inside their tunnel, they may even dare to snap a bit of meat from much larger creatures. grounbore skubs are defenseless outside of their hole, and as such they may only come out at night, almost exclusively to mate with each other.
Sleeping Moss

The Sleeping Moss is a deep moss descendant that has evolved to feed off waste growths of various land benoisials. due to their extreme energy intake, they are very vegetative plants, but their low energy also makes them undesirable to most herbivores.

despite the rise of the new lettucegrasses, the beaches were not devoid of life: in fact, deep moss were quick to create a new, weird niche over their new neighbours. the sleeping moss takes the appearance of a moldy cover for the ground lettucegrass' substrate, on which it feeds off. while notactively damaging the plant, it can deal some indirect damage by lowering the amount of water available for it, as well as making it's surrounding area subsceptible to erosion by the tides, and for this they may be considered a pest to it's host. what's even more surprising is that the plant's spores can survive in a dormant state for years, almost indefinitely as they can keep themselves moisturized while delaying it's growth until the opportunity faces, usually by the regrowth of the film layer, or even the growth of a new plant altogether.