Poseidon2910 - "Fish"

 In this next part, I will show you the fishes, for want of a better term, of this seeded ill-concieved world.

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A small lamprey, that chews with its mouth-disc and tongue, to burrow into the hide of large marine vertebrates, in order to feed. It eventually forms and lives inside a gall-like growth that develops on and under the skin.

A giant, streamlined pelagic lamprey, whose mouth is adapted to prey upon small fish and squid.


A 3-inch-long pelagic Conodont, that shoals in large swarms, filtering plankton as food with its array of spiny teeth.



A large, short-bodied horn-shark, with large cranial horns made of dentine.


A large, deep-sea shark that looks vaguely like a plesiosaur, due to its extended gill region.


An eyeless, abyssal relative of the hammerhead sharks, that locates prey using its hypersensitive array of mechano-, electro- and chemoreceptors.

A 10-meter-long deep sea shark, related to dogfish, that feeds entirely on marine invertebrates.

A small wobbegong that mimics a frond of kelp in order to ambush prey.

A fair-sized, pelagic requiem shark that has a boomerang-shaped head, converging on hammerheads and Diplocalus amphibians.

A 10-meter long, toothless Lamniform shark that feeds by suction, on various soft invertebrates.


A small Pycnodont fish that converges on some modern reef-fish.

A mid-sized Pycnodont fish that converges on some modern reef-fish.

A large Pycnodont fish that has evolved blade like teeth and hunts other fish.

Another Pycnodontid that is like a modern reef-fish.

Descendants of Holopterygius coelacanths that converge upon snailfish and brotulas, a sensory invertebrate-eater of the abyssal depths.

A descendant of Onychodus sarcopterygians that lives like a moray eel.


A coelacanth that lives much like a tripod-fish, on the abyssal sea floor.

A large, pelagic, sunfish-like coelacanth descended from Foreyia, which feeds on free-floating invertebrates.

A huge Pachyrhizodontid fish that has converged upon potato-cods in shape and habits.

A fast-swimming halibut, that lives entirely in the water column, swimming with its dorsal and anal fins like a bat.

An eel-shaped, swimming halibut that undulates up and down to swim.

A huge, transprent, gelatinous-bodied dory, that swims slowly near the surface of the open ocean, feeding on soft-bodied invertebrates.

A small, spindle shaped sunfish, that has rough, spiny skin.

A long-faced kind of red-snapper, that forages in shallow waters for crustaceans and bivalves.

A huge, pelagic sea-bat, with a streamlined head and propulsive pelvic fins.

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