Frynoskorpia

**Frynoskorpia** (roughly translating to Frog scorpion in Greek) sometimes called **Stingers**, are a ectothermic class of Septempollicema. They evolved around 223mya, and their point of origin is South Primaterra. They evolved from the Subclass Xenolissamphibia, but or not closely related enough to be considered sister taxa too **Olisthirodermia**, more like cousin taxa, they evolved from a *Triadobatrachus-like* ancestor. Their ancestor started to evolve the Frog body plan, but instead decided to go another direction. Their reign as the dominant class on South Primaterra started after the mass extinction event that wiped out all the Dinoavesia, but didn't last too long, only the first two million years after, after that they got out competed by the other classes, but especially Gounia.

There are two subclasses, Subclass: Adikimia and Subclass: Amynia, Adikimia are mostly carnivores but there are a few herbivores and omnivores, most of them do not have Aposematism or Albinaelectriamatism, and the ones that do have venom or high voltages of electricity they use them to kill prey not as defense, and they are typically big but there are some small species. Amynia are mostly herbivorous but there are a few omnivore and carnivore species, most of them have Aposematism or Albinaelectriamatism or both, and most of the ones that have venom or electricity use them for self-defense and not to attack or kill prey, and most of them are small but there are a few big ones. They are a weird group of alien animals, Septempollicems mirror Tetrapods in many ways, with some classes of Septempollicema mirroring classes of Tetrapoda, Olisthirodermia is Septempollicems answer to Amphibians, Folidotodermia is Septempollicems answer to Reptiles, **Fterotodermia** are Septempollicems answer to Birds, and **Gounia** is Septempollicems answer to Mammals, but this class takes up none of these roles or mirrors a class of tetrapod at all, instead being basically vertebrate scorpions, but scorpions aren't herbivores so only half of them are basically scorpions, the other half are vegetarian scorpions I guess. They may not mirror any tetrapod, but they mirror something from Earth, unlike Ypsilistasia which mirrors nothing from Earth and and appears to be wholly unique to Hume III.

The reason why they evolved the Scorpion-like body plan and a lot of them fill out the same ecological niche as a scorpion on Earth, it's because there was no Scorpion-like aliens on South Primaterra, so the niche was open and they took it.

## LEVELS OF HOW MUCH THEY KEPT THE ELECTRIC ABILITY!

Agrioderma 100%

Olisthirodermia 88%

Folidotodermia 75%

Fterotodermia 25%

Gounia 50%

**Ypsilistasia** 99%

**Frynoskorpia** 50%

Xenosynapsid unknown

Dinoavesia unknown

Dracosauria unknown

Stelechosypsilistasia unknown.

The reason why 50% have lost the electric abilities is because it wasn't worth having, because it hurts them every time they use it, and if they use it too much they will kill themselves, but a few of them have found a way around this. Some of the ones that have lost it lost it because they switched it out for Venom, some species used both electricity and Venom, some just use electricity, and some species use neither and just prefer to stab their prey to death. Some of the ones that do keep the electricity have evolved a way to channel the electricity to one point, the end of the tale, creating instead of a venomous sting, it's an electrical sting, channeling the electricity out of one point of the body does less damage to the body overall, it's a much more efficient way to use electricity on land. A lot of the ones that do keep the electricity are semi-aquatic. About 5% of all **Frynoskorpia** have lost the ability to feel pain.

## Aposematism and Albinaelectriamatism

It is a tie between **Frynoskorpia** and it's cousin taxa **Olisthirodermia** for most aposematic class of Septempollicems, and a tie between **Frynoskorpia** and Olisthirodermia for second most Albinaelectriamatic. With Adikimia, 5% are aposematic, 5% are Albinaelectriamatic, 5% have both, and 75% have neither. While in Amynia, 20% have neither, 40% are aposematic, 30% are Albinaelectriamatic, and 10% are both. About 5% of all **Frynoskorpia** have lost the ability to feel pain.

## Intelligence

Their intelligence can range from crocodilian levels of intelligence to marsupial levels of intelligence, but most of them have crocodilian levels of intelligence meaning that their average is crocodilian levels, but a handful of species have reached near human levels of intelligence.

## Anatomy

Their brain is kept inside the skull where it has control over the whole body. Their eyes are usually on I stalks that are retractable, but some have lost the ability to retract them, others have reduced the eye stalks and made them shorter, and others have just forgone the eye stalks and just have eyes on the head like a tetrapod, how good their eyesight is depends on the clade, but most of them have infrared vision, just like a snake. Most of them have long whisacles that are prehensile, they use these whisacles to smell and grab things, but some have reduced them losing the prehensileness, how good their sense of smell is depends on the clade, but most have a very good sense of smell, which it uses to find food and to hide from danger. basal clades had a tympanum, while most later clades have external ear holes, how good their hearing is depends on the clade, but most of them can detect vibrations from the ground similar to a snake, some species can detect prey up to a mile away. Most of them have teeth, either square or flat teeth for eating plants or sharp and jagged teeth for eating meat, all of their teeth look identical to each other and serve the exact same function, some species don't even have teeth. They all have tongues, how good their sense of taste is depends on the clade, but most of them can taste all the same taste that humans can taste. Most of them have regular tongues that are just used to help swallow food, while a few others have a frog-like tongue, and some even have a prehensile tongue.

Most of them have six legs and seven toes, most clades use all six of these limbs to walk on, but some clades have evolved the front pair of Limbs into either a normal set of arms, praying mantis-like arms, or even a set of Pincers to help hold the prey in place. Some clades have lost a set of legs and only have four. Not all of them maintain the seven toes, some of them have reduced that down to just one toe. The only marine species known is The Marine Scorpion and it is the only one to have evolved its legs into flippers. All of them have tails, not a single one of them have lost their tail. They all have a retractable Spike on the end of their tail, which is used to either kill prey by repeatedly stabbing it till it bleeds to death, or injecting Venom, or delivering electricity, or both, or all three. The herbivorous species use it in self-defense either by stabbing until the Predator leaves, injecting Venom, or even electricity, or both. Some of them use their venom to liquefy the inside of fruits and then eat the fruit smoothie Left Behind after the melting. Their tails resemble chameleons Tails or seahorse tails, but instead of curling downwards like chameleons, they curl upwards like Leiocephalidae. The reason why the Stinger is retractable it's so the tale doesn't stab itself while in its curled position. Some of them have prehensile tails. About 5% of all **Frynoskorpia** have lost the ability to feel pain. In early clades their skin is rough and bumpy like a toad, but unlike a toad their skin is completely waterproof meaning that once they come up onto land they do not need to come back, later clades would later evolved smooth bare skin that's still waterproof, one species has done the same thing as the Pangolins on Earth and has re-evolved scales for the purpose of armor. They don't start out life in the water like amphibians do, instead they lay shelled eggs on land. Most of them retain their ancestral penis but a few others have lost it and mate by pudding their two cloacas together.

Their internal organs are what you would expect heart, lungs, intestines, liver, all that good stuff. They don't breathe using a diaphragm, instead they use similar methods to reptiles and amphibians on Earth, either with muscles that are around the rib cage or through a method called buccal pumping. Their bones are made out of the same stuff that all Septempollicems bones are made out of.

They have evolved a few different body plans, but here are the most notable. They started out with a *Triadobatrachus-like* body plan, but instead of evolving the Frog body plan it evolves into a bunch of different body plans, the Lizard body plan, the ones with Pincers have evolved the closest thing to the Scorpion body plan, and some have evolved the Cathibian body plan. The lizard, the Scorpion, the Cathibian and the *Triadobatrachus* body plan are the most common in **Frynoskorpia**, although the crocodilian body plan has evolved once, but they all went extinct, and a few other body plans do exist today, but they're not as common.

## Taxonomy

Kingdom: Animalisaliena

Phylum: Xenochordata

Subphylum: Psariaskoulikion

Clade: Idiotamcaptionemviventem

Clade: Ilektrikapodia

Clade: Septempollicemia

Superclass: Septempollicema

Clade: Olisthirodermiomorpha

Class: **Frynoskorpia**

\*\*Subclasses under **Frynoskorpia**\*\*

Subclass: Adikimia

Subclass: Amynia

\*\*Orders under **Frynoskorpia**\*\*

Order: Scorpionesauria

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