Carnisugo scrutator
Once Acutognathus aequilibris started spreading throughout its range in Zone L, a few individuals started wandering out of the Cocktus forests into Zone K to find food. As there were not enough Cockti (Phallucaulis) there to support them alone, they started going for the nearest substitute as well; fleshly dead muscals which were decomposed by Blastios ouranus and did not have an unsettling smell because of the lack of decomposing bacteria. With the change in diet, they became a new species, Acutognathus scrutator. To depend on food found further away, they now only grow to thirty centimeters (30 cm) in length.
Acutognathus scrutator fills a rather unique niche in Zone K. While it does not intentionally kill, as it is more interested in dead muscals that resemble the stems of toppled Cocktus, it will suck the internal juices out of recently dead Oculolophus caecus, Oculolophus acrilluda, Oculolophus latadorsus, Oculolophus panivore, and out of its own species Acutognathus scrutator. They do not pursuit live objects due to their instincts but may go up and suck out of a muscal if desperate for food.
Acutognathus scrutator fully matures seven (7) weeks after leaving the egg. Once fertilized, females will hold their eggs and will attempt to lay them beneath a special carcass; one that she does not feed from in order to supply her bloodthirsty offspring, as without a host they may die before they find a source of food and cannot survive. The amount of eggs laid is higher at a number of twenty-five to thirty (25-30) eggs in case not all of the offspring find enough food after leaving the original carcass to survive to adulthood. They may also be fed on by Oculolophus panivore as prey items while they are growing, and can still be potential prey for them throughout adulthood.