Almyrmoic Dracomander

Almyrmoic Dracomander
Creator	OviraptorFan
Information
Status	Extant
Common Name(s)	Almyrmoic Dracomander, Reclusive Dracomander
Zones	14
Roles	Predator, Scavenger
Classification
Genus	Amphisuchus
Species	Amphisuchus profugus
Evolution
Date	July 10th, 2022
Ancestor	Amphisuchus piscesuchizensii
Descendants	No results

As Amphisuchus piscesuchizensii faced competition from other groups of Macrognadotans such as the wyverns, they began to decline rapidly. A few isolated populations managed to live in the small bay in zone 4 formed by the landmass Aliona. When the landbridge broke and zone 14 turned into a saltwater channel leaving an area with no competition whatsoever. With this rare opportunity presented to them, the Amphisuchids seized it, spreading into zone 14 and speciating.

1.2 meters long

The Almyrmoic Dracomander (Amphisuchus profugus) is a hypercarnivore, using their many needle-like teeth and two lower tusks to snatch prey and rip them to pieces by thrashing them around. Since muscals as a whole are not that common in zone 14, the Almyrmoic Dracomanders are generalists predators, willing to try to consume anything that looks like food and fighting anything that seems like competition. This habit means adult Almyrmoic Dracomanders will often get in fights with one another over the limited resources, individuals often bearing scars on their faces and flanks and sometimes even missing limbs from these skirmishes. Almyrmoic Dracomanders have a dark reddish-brown dorsum, a light brown ventrum, and dark yellow caudal and dorsal fins.

Their aggression is dulled during the warmer spring and summer months, when they travel into coastal waters near East and West Aliona to breed. At this time, male Almyrmoic Dracomanders will follow a female around until they are ready to lay eggs so they can then fertilize them, with the male having to fight off other males who want to do the same thing. When she is ready, the female Almyrmoic Dracomander lays 150-200 eggs in a small dug-out pit in shallow coastal waters that are then fertilized by the male, afterwards the parents separate. When the young hatch, they stay in these coastal waters, feeding on small muscals and carrion, avoiding deeper waters where their cannibalistic elders live. Only when they reach about 8 months of age, being 60 centimeter long subadults, do they finally move into these deeper waters. Almyrmoic Dracomanders hatch with fully developed lungs and only breathe atmospheric air. Although adults never go onto land, young Almyrmoic Dracomanders occasionally haul themselves onto the beaches of nearby continents to scavenge on marine organisms that have died and washed up on the shore.