Manustrapdoora epizon

***Manustrapdoora** **epizon*** ("Manustrapadoora" meaning "trapdoor hand" in Latin, "epizon" meaning "surviving" in Greek) is one of the surviving species of The End Of Times Mass Extinction Event. They evolved around 334mya, and their point of origin is somewhere in South Primaterra. It survived the same way other creatures survived, by having the exact same ability as a naked mole rat from Earth, the ability to slow down or stop next to near all bodily functions in order to wait out times of hardship, such as a lack of oxygen. The hands of this species are not big enough to wrap around an entire human head, they can only get about halfway. This species could be found in some of the same areas as the other surviving Manustrapdoora, but were likely not able to create a hybrid that would function as an actual species. On rare occasion, two different species under the same genus can interbreed and create a functional new species that can become established, though in almost all cases, two species in the same genus can interbreed and create a hybrid creature that will either fail in development or in early life. For example: the liger. A liger is the result of breeding a male lion to a tigress. Like all big-cat hybrids, they frequently suffer from neurological defects, sterility, cancer, arthritis, organ failure, and diminished life expectancy. When Homo sapiens and Neanderthals and a few other human species all interbred to create modern humans, we got some genetic problems but we were still able to function as a species. So even though this species overlapped with other species in the same genus scientist believe a hybrid species never became established because of the same problems that the liger suffers. Both the male and females would get up to 6 in tall, the females can get up to 2 ft long, while the males can only get up to 1 foot long, the female is about 1 ft wide, while the males are about 6 in wide. The exact average lifespan is unknown, but is estimated to be around 40 earth years for the females and 30 earth years for the males.

## Evolution

They evolved from an unknown species of Manustrapdoora, they evolved around 334mya. They lasted from 334mya to 324mya, their reason for extinction is they all evolved into new species, every 1 million years a specific population in a specific area would become a new species, and eventually there was only one small population of them left, they didn't get out competed by anything, the environment changed and they changed with it, turning them into a new species. It managed to survive through The End Of Times Extinction Event because they evolved a naked mole rat-like ability, the ability to slow down or stop bodily functions in order to wait out times of hardship. If it wasn't for this ability they probably would have went extinct. It would later go on to give rise to almost every modern-day species of Manustrapdoora, the other surviving species of Manustrapdoora would also give rise to some Modern species of Manustrapdoora, but they would go on to also give rise to new genera, families, orders, and even a few new classes, while this species only ever evolved into other species of Manustrapdoora.

## Anatomy

### Head

Their head is where their brain is kept. It is also where the eyes, ears, mouth, and whisacles are kept. Their eyes are on stalks like a snail, and can be attracted and retracted just like a snail's eyes, but because of the fast-moving Rapids this species lived in it's eyes are retracted by default. And because of the murky water that it lived in it didn't have the greatest eyesight just barely being able to make out shapes. They have ear stones that they used to both hear and maintain balance, they have a decent sense of hearing. Unlike other Genera in the family which have a mouth more like a catfish, this genus has a longer narrower mouth with Jagged sharp teeth protruding out, kind of resembles the moray eels mouth. Its teeth are Jagged and razor-sharp meant for killing and holding on to pray. It's tongue is mostly just use as a swallow assist but does have the receptors for the five tastes that we have but they are primitive versions, so they have a decent sense of taste. Because this species lived in fast-moving Rapids in order to reduce drag it had only medium length whisacles instead of the longer ones that other species and other Genera have, it's sense of smell is pretty decent not as good as it could be though. They had two gill slits on either side of the neck, these help them breathe.

### Body

#### Outsides

Their entire body is covered in scales, the scales of this species in particular are suspected to be dark brown ish due to the muddy dark water that it lived in. It has no Dorsal fins or tail fins the only fins that it has are two sets of pectoral fins and one set of pelvic fins. At the end of the first pair of pectoral fins are giant five-fingered webbed hands, it uses these giant hands as a door to it's burrow, kind of like the trapdoor spider on Earth except instead of having the door be made of dirt it's made of hand, it also uses it's hands to grab a hold of prey when they get close. These fingers like the digits of tetrapods on Earth and the legs of the sea robin on Earth evolved from rays on the end of the fin, this genus has lost the rest of the rays, so it can no longer evolve more fingers, now it's stuck at five. At the end of the second pair of pectoral fins are a set of smaller hands with only four fingers, three normal fingers and one thumb, this set of hands is used to help it hold on to the inside of the burrow so nothing can pull it out. At the end of the pelvic fins is yet another set of small hands specifically to help it hold on inside the burrow, this hand only has three fingers no thumb. Their tale is prehensile with no tail fin on it and it is also used to help hold it inside the burrow, but whenever it's out of its burrow it can help maintain balance.

#### Insides

Their bones are made of calcium. They have a closed circulatory system and red blood. They have muscles and a central nervous system. They have two hearts, one of them being slightly reduced. They have both gills and lungs. Stomach, kidneys, intestines, and all that good stuff. They have a cloaca, and they reproduce by putting their cloacas together, they do not have a penis.

## Habitat

They lived in fast-moving Rapids all around South Primaterra. They preferred freshwater but they can live in salt water as well. How they got into multiple Rivers is either through flooding which allowed two rivers to merge into one temporarily and then once the flooding subsided the ones that went into the other River got trapped, same things can go for lakes and ponds and every other body of water, that's how fish on Earth that are of the same species somehow get into multiple bodies of water, or some got washed down the river into the ocean and then swam up a different River, or maybe it's both.

## Diet

Considering their method of hunting they were probably 100% carnivorous and ate absolutely no plants. Their method of hunting is to sit and wait inside a burrow with their hands usually covering the opening, only jumping out when a prey items swims by, since plants don't often come by they probably would never catch a plant because unlike other Genera under this family these ones don't move a whole lot, they usually stay in their Burrows meaning they're not occasionally walking around and happening upon water plants to eat them. So yeah 100% carnivorous.

## Breeding

They reproduce by touching cloacas together and releasing gametes. First the male crawls out of his burrow to go find a mate. The male can tell when it's a female if it's bigger than him. Once it finds a mate, usually be a sense of smell and not site, it will wait for a prey item to come by and when she grabs a hold of that prey item he slips into the hole and begins The Mating process. The reason why he has to do it like this is because if he just tried to go right in she would eat him. After the mating process is done he better get out of there, eight times out of ten the males typically get eaten. After the female lays her eggs in her burrow she will then leave the burrow and build a new one. Once the eggs hatch some of them will eat each other the rest will swim out of the burrow and start their own lives.

## Adaptations

Their 2 most notable adaptations are they're naked mole rat like ability to slow down or stop bodily functions in order to wait out times of hardship and they're big hands.

## Threats

The only threats they probably had to worry about were High volcanic activity, the fast-moving Rapids washing them down the river whenever they were caught outside of their burrow, stuff bumping into them because of the fast-moving Rapids whenever they were caught outside of their burrow, other ones of their own kind, and Manustrapdoora kryftisapothanatos.

## Additional Information

Discovery: it was the first fossil discovered in the Miller formation, it was discovered by Boden Müller.

Name of the person who discovered it: Boden Müller

Jokes: N/A

Intelligence Level: normal animal intelligence.

Assessment: It was too small to really do any major damage, but if it just so happened to scratch or bite the femoral artery, or any other major blood vessel, it is possible you could bleed out, but the chances of that were slim to none, because like all Manustrapdoora this species was probably an introvert it would rather run away than fight. So mostly safe. 👍

## Taxonomy

Domain: Exogiinosefkaryotis

Kingdom: Animalisaliena

Subkingdom: Enmetazoae

Phylum: Xenochordata

Subphylum: Psariaskoulikion

Megaclass: Epithymia

Superclass: Skoulikionpsaria

Class: Ostikiepithymia

Subclass: Efchimelovo

Order: Psithyrismenoprosopoiformes

Suborder: Programmataanichnefsiskatoidei

Clade: **Idiotamcaptionemviventem**

Subclade: Ourapterygio

Section: Mobileidiotamcaptionem

Family: Arpaktikoaltidae

Tribe: Arpaktikoaltini

Genus: **Manustrapdoora**

Subgenus: Kakomatia

Species: **Manustrapdoora** **epizon**

No adding subspecies here, only planned on there being one.