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Unlike the creatures of earth, many of Isla's diverse clades of fauna do not have a centralized head, and instead have sensory organs located all over their body. With this kind of a morphological layout, diundecapod species belonging to the taxonomical class Durcostra have evolved to move with a bimodal directionality. This means what unlike species on earth which almost always walk with same end facing "forward", these creatures change their directionality depending on their behavior. Sometimes they walk with their wide abdominal end leading, and in other instances they reverse direction and walk with their thin pseudothoracic end facing straight ahead. Illustrated is a species belonging to the genus Oponoia, a group of highly social, plains-dwelling durcostrids.

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Description
Unlike the creatures of earth, many of Isla's diverse clades of fauna do not have a centralized head, and instead have sensory organs located all over their body. With this kind of a morphological layout, diundecapod species belonging to the taxonomical class Durcostra have evolved to move with a bimodal directionality. This means what unlike species on earth which almost always walk with same end facing "forward", these creatures change their directionality depending on their behavior. Sometimes they walk with their wide abdominal end leading, and in other instances they reverse direction and walk with their thin pseudothoracic end facing straight ahead. Illustrated is a species belonging to the genus Oponoia, a group of highly social, plains-dwelling durcostrids.

Questions and comments are welcome!