Two-Lined Herring Gendia

Two-Lined Herring Gendia
Creator	oofle
Information
Status	Extant
Common Name(s)	Two-Lined Herring Gendia
Zones	3
Roles	Base-Consumer, Predator
Classification
Genus	Cyclodia
Species	Cyclodia duolineum
Evolution
Date	October 27th, 2020
Ancestor	Cyclops Herring
Descendants	No results

Size: Males are 6-7 cm, females are only 5-6 cm but swell in size when gravid.
Diet: A. osone, K. ellowus, F. cenafolius, F. foliumicroeus, L. magnideus, L. titanokelpa, L. megafolium, T. trifecta, S. sneali, E. shockirus, E. pygmybrachium, S. britala.
Predators: E. extendum, E. taleagnathus, P. polyodon, T. pelagicus, T. therophagus.

Evolved from Cyclodia makari

Cyclodia duolineum is a descendant of Cyclodia makari that migrated to Zone 3 to avoid competition with conspecifics, due to genetic drift they have become a new species, their mating marks have become different, the main difference being that the line that runs across their body has duplicated, hence their specific name: duolineum, due to the specificity of this pattern to the males however, the females remain unchanged from their ancestor’s coloration, also of note is how the line duplicating happened not only for no reason, it helps to break up their shape against the rest of their shoal, protecting them from predators. They are otherwise extremely similar to their ancestors, eating a wide variety of organisms both large and small, but their diet is much more herbivorous due to the wide variety of polyphytes in Zone 3 compared to in Zone 4 and the lack of original animal prey, like their ancestor they form huge shoals of up to 200 individuals, but averaging at 70, visible from high above like oil spills on the pristine water of Zone 3.

When it comes time to reproduce C. duolineum does much the same as its ancestor, the females and males releasing eggs and millet into the water in a frenzy, upon which the eggs stick to nearby debris, rocks, and plants, though a few often end up just floating, the result of messy breeding, which often leads to a higher mortality rate upon offspring, when gravid, females swell up to 7-8 cm long, filled to the brim with eggs.