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epipephorma :

epipeforms are a clade of sinipterigians that evolved to be bigger and more resistant to predators like the ptiloforms. The first sinipterigians appeared in the reefs of chontrodermatans, in the tropical waters of their planet. These ancestral forms are one of the oldest bony ploumozoans and thanks to their fast reproduction they quickly populated every reef in the planet, becoming one of the most common reef-dwelling clades. After this succesful clade appeared, their sister clade, the polipterigians, were also now in every reef and they were better than sinipterigians for filling a lot of niches. After this, ptiloforms appeared, ptiloforms are ambuss predators that eat small bony ploumozoans. Because of their big fins, sinipterigians were more vulnerable to ptiloform attacks than polipterigians.

To solve this problem, sinipterigians evolved to be bigger than their predators for them to have less chances of catching them. Like all sinipterigians, epipeforms use their whiskers to detect their prey in the ocean floor, their prey are small worm-like eugastroideans that can be found digging in the sand, in the reefs, or near rocks. When they detect them, epipeforms use their long tongues that they keep in the beggining of their esophagus (like all ploumozoans) to get to them and to take them to their mouths, this process is similar to the feeding metod of anteaters when they eat ants. epipeforms also have diverse color patterns that allow them to camouflage in the chontrodermatans, the species shown in the picture has a color pattern similar to a banana with grey spots.

Description

epipephorma :

epipeforms are a clade of sinipterigians that evolved to be bigger and more resistant to predators like the ptiloforms. The first sinipterigians appeared in the reefs of chontrodermatans, in the tropical waters of their planet. These ancestral forms are one of the oldest bony ploumozoans and thanks to their fast reproduction they quickly populated every reef in the planet, becoming one of the most common reef-dwelling clades. After this succesful clade appeared, their sister clade, the polipterigians, were also now in every reef and they were better than sinipterigians for filling a lot of niches. After this, ptiloforms appeared, ptiloforms are ambuss predators that eat small bony ploumozoans. Because of their big fins, sinipterigians were more vulnerable to ptiloform attacks than polipterigians.

To solve this problem, sinipterigians evolved to be bigger than their predators for them to have less chances of catching them. Like all sinipterigians, epipeforms use their whiskers to detect their prey in the ocean floor, their prey are small worm-like eugastroideans that can be found digging in the sand, in the reefs, or near rocks. When they detect them, epipeforms use their long tongues that they keep in the beggining of their esophagus (like all ploumozoans) to get to them and to take them to their mouths, this process is similar to the feeding metod of anteaters when they eat ants. epipeforms also have diverse color patterns that allow them to camouflage in the chontrodermatans, the species shown in the picture has a color pattern similar to a banana with grey spots.