Viofotavgessoma orientemprimaterrus

***Viofotavgessoma orientemprimaterrus*** (named after Latin for "east", "orientem" and the continent North Primaterra) is an extinct species under the family Arpaktikoaltidae and was one of three species directly descending from *Viofotavgessoma bingusi*, the other two being *Viofotavgessoma septentrionesprimaterrus* and *Viofotavgessoma luxapit*. It is distinguished primarily by the fact that it lived further east along the coastlines of North Primaterra than its other two counterpart species, divided primarily by long distances between members of the species. Members of this species are capable of releasing light from most of their body, excluding the tail, fins, and face. It also exhibits a shorter tail relative to body length than most other species in its genus, this likely being due to their living very near shorelines, thus decreasing the need for speed in swimming.

## Anatomy

This species has only one major difference from the rest of its species, that being a notably lessened tail. This is likely due to the fact that this species tends to live closer to shorelines than other members of the genus, drawing in prey from land, this often being less adapted to bioluminescence. The tail constitutes about only 15% of the body length, as opposed to the typical 20-30% of most other species. Because of this, the backbone contains (number) vertebra rather than the (number 2) typical of *Viofotavgessoma*.

Members of this species range from 0.5 feet (0.15 meters) to 0.7 feet (0.21 meters) in length in adulthood, while reaching roughly one tenth this while in juvenile development.

## Habitat

This species lived roughly around eastern coastlines of early North Primaterra, the furthest east around North Primaterra of any species in this genus.

## Evolution

*Viofotavgessoma orientemprimaterrus* evolved from *Viofotavgessoma bingusi* about 321 million years ago, being one of three species to do so. It later evolved into more species than any other descendants of *V. bingusi*, evolving into several families' worth of species. Its new niche of traversing towards land was quite successful in coastal ecosystems, as the majority of land-dwelling animals were unadapted to the threat of bioluminescence, not having faced anything like this previously. While the descendants of *Viofotavgessoma luxapit* were the most successful around the coastlines of Primaterra, a few select species of *V. orientemprimaterrus* survived by venturing further onto land. This species itself went extinct about 319 million years ago, and the last of its descendants died out about 68 million years ago. Additionally, by a series of evolutions leading to and back away from open-ocean niches, descendants of this species were able to travel away from North Primaterra and across Nulloceanum to reach Terratertius, where they flourished for about another 251 million years until finally going extinct, being the last of the lineage of *V. bingusi*.

## Taxonomy

Domain: Exogiinosefkaryotis

Kingdom: Animalisaliena

Subkingdom: Enmetazoae

Phylum: Xenochordata

Subphylum: Psariaskoulikion

Megaclass: Epithymia

Superclass: Skoulikionpsaria

Class: Ostikiepithymia

Subclass: Efchimelovo

Order: Psithyrismenoprosopoiformes

Suborder: Programmataanichnefsiskatooidei

Clade: Idiotamcaptionemviventem

Subclade: Ourapterygio

Section: Mobileidiotamcaptionem

Clade: Arpaktikoaltisidae

Family: Arpaktikoaltidae

Tribe: Arpaktikoaltini

Genus: *Viofotavgessoma*

Species: ***Viofotavgessoma orientemprimaterrus***