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The Parrot Flowerjaw is named both for its petal like mouth, and the earth parrotfish, and like its namesake it scoots around its environment picking food items from the substrate.

Its gravity-less gaseous home environment has led evolution to favor radial symmetry, and the flowerjaw can see in all directions with its four eyes while scavenging for food among the multi-kilometer long strands of webforest. Though occasionally alone, it is often found in loose flocks of thousands that descend on areas of forest and strip it of all edible creatures before moving on. However at only about a meter long, the Flowerjaw is itself prey to larger creatures and some of the more aggressive plants...

Internally as externally, the flowerjaw is divided into four quadrants, each possessing several organs. Four eyes are joined to a four lobed nerve ring, though a single digestive tract sits in the center of the body. Eight paired hearts are joined to blood sinuses, one of each pair pumping blood fore and the other aft. Four lung like sacks handle gas exchange, and are ventilated by expanding and contracting sacks along their edges, rather than use of a diaphragm as in some earth creatures.

Four fin-wings propel the flowerjaw in the manner of a cuttlefish or triggerfish and give it manoveuring ability in the sometimes tangled webforests.
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~Aditya2 May 10, 2013  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Are these creatures popular pets among half of the races of the galaxy?
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Mood: Wow! ~TallCanXD Jan 20, 2012
Were any references take from our neighboring species?
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*Abiogenisis Jan 21, 2012
Definitely. Mostly from parrot fish, squid, and wrasses species.
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Mood: Joy ~TallCanXD Jan 25, 2012
I will look at these species closer. Thank you for sharing.
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~hymake Jul 7, 2011  Hobbyist Photographer
I can only say: WOW
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*bear48 Feb 12, 2011  Professional
very well thought out
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~Hemlock-Sholers Jan 14, 2011
How could there be a 0-G gasseous environment? Gass planets have gravity
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*Starbat Nov 23, 2010
You put such realistic and well thought-out details into your designs and explanations. You must have a background in biolgy. Do you?

This is fantastic work. :D
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*Abiogenisis Nov 24, 2010
Actually, no formal biology training. But i LOVE natural history so I read and try and teach myself.
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*Starbat Nov 24, 2010
That's pretty cool. :)
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