False-Toothed Gendia

False-Toothed Gendia
Creator	OviraptorFan
Information
Status	Extant
Common Name(s)	False-Toothed Gendia
Zones	3, 4, 32
Roles	Predator
Classification
Genus	Extendia
Species	Extendia taleagnathus
Evolution
Date	July 28th, 2020
Ancestor	Extendia elasmus
Descendants	No results

More active Gendia elasmus had a better chance of locating prey. Overtime they became larger,developed a way to prevent their prey from escaping, and ways to help them zero in on the victim. These adaptations eventually gave rise to a species.

45 centimeters long
Originated in zone 4

Gendia taleagnathus are voracious predators almost always on the hunt for their next meal. Hatchlings will try to eat large prey for their body size, sometimes resulting in death. Their raised eyesocket gives their eye a higher angle allowing them to look forward to better zero in on prey in front of them. Their slight counter shading of dark orange on bottom and orangish-brown on top additionally allows them to blend in better with the sea floor, making them harder to spot as they move in to attack.

Once the prey is caught, the small calcified ridges on their upper and lower jaws,which developed as serrations of skin, help hold onto the prey while it is swallowed whole. Their jaws also have developed larger muscles to deliver a more powerful bite to crush the victim, possibly ending the struggle early and to eat the victim whole.

Much like their ancestor G. elasmus, the False Toothed Gendia are solitary and cannibalistic. The only time two individuals come together and don’t eat each other are when two adults are about to breed, with the female and male releasing their gametes into the water. After being buried in the sand, the eggs take longer to develop than their ancestors, about 3 weeks, which means the young are larger, around 3cm, when they hatch and thus able to eat bigger things.