Anguisia

Anguisia commonly known as Snake worms, are a class under Skoulikigis. They are distinguished by their snake-like body shape and appearance, often compared in several ways to the suborder Serpentes of Earth. They evolved around 268 million years ago, some early clades keeping the segmentation of their ancestors, giving them a somewhat worm-like appearance, but later clades lost the segmentation in favor of a more smooth body. This class evolved from a clade called Vilisaquam, which laid hard-shelled eggs so that they no longer required the water. Early clades were originally a dark pink, but later clades adapted red skin to blend in with the foliage on their continent.

## Anatomy

Starting with the anterior end, the head is where their brain is stored, enclosed by a protective skull. They don't have any ability to hear, and depending on the clade their eyesight can range between only being able to see light and dark, vision detecting most visible colors, heat-sensing Vision like snakes on Earth, and complete blindness. Some of the blind ones just have vestigial non-functional eyes, and other ones have lost their eyes entirely. They have nostrils, but these aren't for the smell they are just for breathing. Some clades have the snake tongue, others don't. As for their jawbones, early clades cannot unhinge their jaw as a snake could, but later clades could. Most have sharp teeth some, have square teeth for eating grass or fruits, and some have no teeth at all. Snakes on earth can be divided into two types, venomous and non-venomous, these snake worms can be divided into three types, venomous, poisonous, and non-toxic, On Earth, people who don't know the difference between poison and Venom often call venomous snakes poisonous snakes even though there are no snakes that bite poison, there are some snakes that secrete poison out of pores, there is no snake that bites with poison, but some of these worms do. It is speculated that the poison bites evolve first before the much better, more efficient, Venom bites evolved. There are one species that have both venom, and poison, and it also constricts its prey, this species is called The Triple Threat. Now for their bodies, their bodies are long, some are segmented like a worm and covered in scales. While others are not segmented and they are actually smooth and covered in scales. The scales are typically like snake scales, their typical colors are either dark pink or red, but there are a few oddballs. The earliest clades didn't have tails, but some later evolve Tales to either turn them into a rattle like a rattlesnake or to use them to grip onto trees better, and some evolve them to use them as a whip. Their bones are made of the same stuff as Earth snakes, their veins, muscles, and arteries all function the same way, and their internal organ layout are what you would expect, very similar to that of a snake, except they have two hearts. And their blood is green. And most are cold-blooded creatures, but some clades would evolve to be mesothermic.

## Taxonomy

Phylum: Xenochordata

Clade: Osvermis

Subphylum: Osvermisa

Superclass: Skoulikigis

Class: **Anguisia**

### Orders under Anguisia

Order: Wquamata

Order: Viperia

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