Catus

Catus is the second class under Cathibian, They evolved around 268,333,333 years ago, they are distinguished from the previous class by the fact that they have waterproof skin, The first Order under Catus is Catuses, under this is two suborders and six families, three under each suborder. One species from each of those six families would evolve into the rest of the orders underneath this class, and eventually, evolve into new classes.

Anatomy

Let's start with the faces, some have long crocodilian/dinosaurian snouts, While others have short snouts with beaks, others have long snouts with beaks, others have short snouts and no beaks, some have sharp teeth, some have flat teeth, some have both, some have no teeth, but they all have tongues. They have eyestalks but they are reduced, and they have lost the ability to retract them like a snail. They have completely lost the whisacles, and instead have more traditional nostrils. Most of them have tails, but some do not, some species and some genera have evolved protective Weaponry on the end of their tails, akin to stegosaurus thagomizer, and Ankylosaurus tail clubs. They walk on six legs and have one toe on the end of each foot with one big claw on the end of that toe, most clades have the middle and back pairs of legs rotated 180 degrees, meaning like the echidna, their middle and back feet are backwards, but the family Clima has evolved its front two pairs of Limbs into arms for climbing trees, so it could take up arboreal ecological niches, other future clades evolved arms independently of each other, sometimes just the front pair, sometimes the front two pairs. They don't have scales, they have smooth skin, some classes, later on, would evolve scales and fur-like coverings, but this class just has bare waterproof skin. One final quirk of their Anatomy is that they exhibit sequential hermaphroditism, when one member of a species migrates to a new area, and there's too many of that one gender in that area, it will switch its gender.

Catus Huma: The older group and they have more niches, large herbivores, fast hunters, long-snouted fish eaters, some have adaptations similar to creatures on earth, Catus Huma Vegauts has flattened teeth and rocks their jaws back in forth to grind up vegetation, plus large stomachs to help digest tough plant material, Catus Huma Crocoil lives near river beds and eats fish with a large long snout, and nostrils above the water, so yeah diverse.

Catus Beakin: This group looks almost similar to Huma, but they have a beak made from bone this beak is used for many purposes, primarily for food, but some species use it as a display structure, and a digging tool, but are either herbivores or omnivores, Catus Beakin Clima is one of the first arboreal animals with long stretched out limbs, and hooked claws some longer beak, which they search the ground with to find Hume bugs.

These 2 groups live on the northern half of the continent, the southern half has another weird animal.

Taxonomy

Kingdom: Animalisaliena

Phylum: Xenochordata

Superclass: Cathibian

Class: **Catus**

\*\*Orders under Catus here\*\*

Order: Catuses

\*\*Suborders under Catuses\*\*

Suborder: Huma

\*\*Families under Huma\*\*

Family: Killa

Family: Vegatus

Family: Crocoil

Suborder: Beakin

\*\*Families under Beakin\*\*

Family: Omi

Family: Clima

Family: Diga

Order: Catina

Order: Cathoofian

Order: Crocodibian

Order: Cathyreophoraian

Order: Carborealn

Order: Cathalpidaeian.

Add your own clades and orders here