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Species: "Gastrocyste monoculus"

Meaning: "One-eyed Stomach Bladder"

​Common: "Spootnik"

​Weight: "~600g"

​Length: "~27cm"

Spootniks, are curious medium sized liquivores. Spootniks are one in the hundreds of species belonging to the Gastrocyste genus of the floating slug-like invertebrates of the Spheromorpha family.

Spheromorpha are know to have many different forms of floatation methods such as control shift of digestive gasses, rapid air intake or as can change pressure accordingly to heat exchange.

Spootniks live in humid rocky crevices and deep ravines, they tend to crawl about on their bellies with the help of four flexible stalks observing their dim environment with a single split compound eye. When in need to move or to catch a wind draft their make their bodies warmer and release small amounts of methane to rapidly expand their belly bladder in order to become balloon-like while two extended weighted appendages on either side work as stabilizing points. They feed especially on a certain type of rock-breaking zoophyte organism by using their needle-like proboscis to sap the rich fluids from within.

Spootniks and most of the Spheromorpha are R-selective species, with only a few dozen reaching maturity over a short period.

Species: "Deinoadens cyanostriatus"

Meaning: "Fearsome glandular banded azure"

​Common: "Skye's Lullabier" or "Lullabier"

​Weight: "~4.5kg"

​Length: "~47.5cm"

​Wingspan: "~46cm"

​Lullabiers, are frugivores from Pillatus. The smallest species of the Deinoadens, Lullabiers have a striking pattern across their backside, inducing visually the same colorful warnings of many Earthen frogs, insects and aquatic invertebrate species known to possess toxins and poisonous attributes. This is no coincidence, Lullabiers feed on a particular bright red fruit shaped like a long and crooked halfmoon that sprouts from a species of stranger vines. These fruits possess a lethal neurotoxin to most creatures, but for Lullabies their kidneys filter this neurotoxin and secrete it over their skin in a thin membrane layer to prevent parasites from sticking and rendering them an off-putting and deadly taste. If eaten by something, the neurotoxin shall rend a very slow and paralyzing demise.

Lullabiers are inconspicuous but flashy creatures, they tend to perch in dense folliage while resting only coming out when needing to bask in the sunlight, but when they do need to bask they'll vibrate the muscular flaps in long and echoing stridulating chirps, it's theorized that it works as both a communication method with other Lullabiers and as a warning call for predator who might spot them under the light.

Lullabiers fly in the humid flourishing regions where Pillatus receives less wind force and abundant light.

Lullabiers are prone to parthenogenic reproduction, meaning most will reproduce assexually without a proper partner. This happens mostly with Lullabiers that cannot find a partner during breeding periods, females will generate fetilized eggs on their own, while males switch genders and then generate their own eggs as well.

Species: "Deinoadens mauroignis"

Meaning: "Fearsome glandular black fire"

​Common: "Spitfire"

​Weight: "~210kg"

​Length: "~2.20m"

​Wingspan: "~2m"

​Spitfires, are carnivores from Pillatus. One of the most aggressive species of the Deinoadens, Spitfires developed chemical bladders similar to those present in the Earthen insect (Brachinus crepitans) however, these creatures elevated it several degrees above. Their ancestors sweated low amounts hydrazine and peroxide to have an off-putting taste, overtime due to sudden heavy predation they began to produce more concentrated quantities. Eventually squirted as an irritant, and would generate mild chemical burns. This lead to an arms race that led to a range of 80-90% purity, the weaponization led to what today is a devastating predatory weapon. Dual chambers lined with fluorinated chitin and stabilizing proteins that possess the Hydrazine and Peroxide. The chemical reaction leads to a flash burst of superheated chemicals reaching 800°C - 1200°C. Enough to kill most small prey and severely injure large organisms.

Spitfires are solitary hunters flying in medium-low altitudes where they can quickly dive and strike small prey and invertebrates.

Spitfires fly in colder dry regions north and south of Pillatus respectively, and in few high mountainous locations scattered across the planet.

Spitfires solitary nature is also present in their mating behaviour, they partake in seasonal monogamy where a fitting male and female find one another, breed, and lay their eggs in cliffside nests raising their young into independance before departing into a solitary life again.

Species: "Deinoadens aurupteron"

Meaning: "Fearsome Glandular Golden-wing"

​Common: "Blackbiter"

​Weight: "~145kg"

​Length: "~1.55m"

​Wingspan: "~1.87m"

​Blackbiters, are pack hunters from Pillatus. Like others of it's family, they exhibit faveolar lungs that exhale air through a tightening system of valves that act as a ramjet engine, aided by occasional flapping of their cartilaginous wings. Their "head" are are where their sensory organs are found: A protusion holds two pairs of trinocular eyes like those of Earthen (Odontodactylus scyllarus) giving them acute visual depth. Right before, two muscular flaps clasp together, these are taste and scent receptors equipped with thousands of tiny serrated teeth that shred and pull meat which they eat through a horizalontal slit at the base of their "neck". Such as is the Deinoadens, the tip of these flaps possess a retractable fang which deliver powerful venom in their prey. In Blackbiters, their sting delivers a powerful hemotoxin while their saliva floods the wound with symbiotic flesh eating bacterium unique to their species.

Blackbiters are found in fusion-fission groups of 5, flying in tightly organized squadrons over long distances usually in median altitudes where their sight can scour most of the land.

Blackbiters fly in regions with high levels of hot humidity and seasonal rain along the equator line and tropical forests where the bacterium they possess can multiply and fester more easily.

Blackbiters are intraspecific competitors, the males group in the hundreds throughout the height of the summer in large clearings in the ground, where they endure bloody dueling using their deadly fangs and hemotoxin. Idiobionts, females lay their blue egg pouches in fresh carcasses they lace thoroughly with their flesh eating microbial symbiotes. This ensures scavengers avoid the festering carcass and that their offspring will inherit the same bioweapon of their parents.