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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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Strange alien wonders. ;p

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This is truly great. It initially struck me as being inspired by mollusk anatomy, but it truly is alien. I am envious of your meticulous imagination. :)
And of cource time for the Million dollar question.

How do they taste, and could they do with a little garlic.

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keep up the madness please :) loving every inch of it
Brilliant idea, great execution !

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Awsome it looks like it could be a real creature!
If you wasn't existing we should create you, really. I love all your work.

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Amazing internal building plan. I love the idea of four eyes controlled by a ring-shaped brain...

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Amazing! This is 100 times better that any of my exoanatomy stuff! I like the quadrant based organ system.
Hope to see more!

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