Lamperaarouraious (land dwarf lantern hhark)

Lamperaarouraious (meaning glowing rats in Greek) are a genus under the family Karchariesarouraidae. They look like a rat with no earlobes, and instead just two earholes, and a little shark fin on the back. They actually look nothing like The Dwarf Lantern Hhark or The Dwarf Lantern Shark, they just got their name from how small they are, and the fact that they are bioluminescent. Their size depends on the species, the smallest being the size of an earth shrew, and the large is being the size of an earth opossum. Their lifespan also depends on the species, the shortest living one can live up to a year, the longest-living one can live up to 32 years. They are highly intelligent, some species are just as intelligent as Earth rats, other species are even smarter than Earth rats. It has 27 species discovered so far, more are expected to be discovered, three of those species are fossil species, the rest are still living. The first one discovered was Lamperaarouraious lamperaarouraious. They get their common name from the fact that, they are on land, they are small, they glow, and they're hharks. They get their scientific name from the fact that, they glow, and they look and act like rats. Because they have a fur-like filament scientists didn't know if their bioluminescence was only on their dorsal fin or if their whole body glowed, to find out scientist shaved one, and the answer is yes their whole body glows. They use this glowing for communication amongst themselves signaling to others when there's danger or when it's safe. Each color means something different, green means it's safe, yellow means food, red means danger, blue-green means I smell something but I don't see or hear anything, blue means I smell and hear something but I don't see anything, purple means ready to mate, orange means safe to sleep, cyan means I'm sick leave me behind I'm a detriment to the herd or I don't feel well or I don't feel so good, and finally White doesn't mean anything it's used to try to blind predators as a last-ditch effort. Some species fill out the same ecological niche as rats using the same survival strategies, While others go the meerkat route. This genus first evolved nine hundred ninety-nine thousand nine hundred ninety-nine years ago. and their point of origin is Secundoterra, it is unknown whether this genus first evolved in the grasslands or in the forest, species of this genus have been found in both biomes. Like rats and other rat-like aliens, they carry many diseases some of which are fatal to humans they will typically avoid humans unless cornered or sick. Just like how rats have become an invasive species throughout the Galaxy, these guys have somehow made it back to Earth, efforts to remove them from Earth are ongoing.

Anatomy

Their head contains the brain, which is connected to the eyes, ears, nose, and mouth, they have lost the ampullae of their ancestors. Our vision is quite sharp; we can see long distances and have good depth perception. A glowing rat's vision, however, is quite blurry especially more than a few feet away, and its depth perception is poor. But they do see in color, however. A glowing rat perceives its immediate environment with its whiskers, through its sense of touch. They have more whiskers than Earth rats, in fact, every jelly-filled pores of their ampullae have been replaced with a whisker. Just like Earth rats, glowing **Rats** have excellent **hearing** and can detect sound in the range 200Hz to 90,000Hz (Mice 100Hz to 90,000Hz). As a comparison, humans can **hear** in the range 20Hz to 20,000Hz. This demonstrates that Glowing **rats** not only have a greater range of **hearing** but can detect ultrasonic sound (20,000Hz and above). Glowing rats rank pretty high in terms of **olfactory** abilities. In fact, A.R.F. research shows that glowing rats are highly sensitive to **smells**, and some species have even been trained to detect odors specific to land mines and tuberculosis. Glowing **Rats** have **taste** receptors on their tongue called **taste** buds which make them enable to distinct five **taste** categories such as sweet, sour, salty, bitter, and savoury. Because they are apart of the Clade Synimmenosagoni, their jaws are attached to their skull, which is unlike all other Karcharias. They have lost the regenerating teeth of sharks, and instead gained the regenerating teeth of rodents, meaning instead of teeth constantly falling out and new ones rolling in to replace them, they have the one set of teeth that constantly grow and they need to keep chewing on things to wear them down. Their two front teeth looks similar to rat teeth, but instead of being square and flat on the tip, they are sharp and pointy. They have four legs each one ending with a claw, when they are born they don't have this claw, this claw develops as they mature. They also have a singular dorsal fin on their back, which is used for communication with their bioluminescence. Their tails are long, thin, have no fur, and no tail fins, looking almost identical to it the tail of a rat, or an opossum. Their bodies are bioluminescent, Bioluminescence occurs through a chemical reaction that produces light energy within an organism's body. For a reaction to occur, a species must contain luciferin, a molecule that, when it reacts with oxygen, produces light. The bioluminescence can only be seen where there is no fur, such as their dorsal fin, their tail, and the bottom of their feet. Their body, head, and legs are covered in a fur-like filament, the color of these filaments depends on the species, but the most common colors are orange, gray, black, and brown. Their skeleton is made of actual bone and not cartilage. As for their internal organs, they have what you would expect, the only weird oddity is that they have two hearts, other than that they have all the same organs that rats have. Unlike mammals, their reproductive organs (such as the penis) are kept inside the body and only brought out during mating, when not in use it is stored inside the cloaca.

Taxonomy

Kingdom: Animalisaliena

Phylum: Xenochordata

Subphylum: Psariaskoulikion

Superclass: **Karcharias**

Class: Karchariasgalaktos

Subclass: Ocultogenitalia

Order: Pistrisrodentia

Family: Karchariesarouraidae

Genus: **Lamperaarouraious**

\*\*Species under Lamperaarouraious\*\*

Species: Lamperaarouraious lamperaarouraious

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