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Scientific name: Fossuroptera schultzii

Fossuroptera schultzii, a recently discovered, burrowing member of the family Xenochiropterae. The creature belongs to a species of small colonial animals, much like the meerkats of Earth’s Kalahari Desert.

The wings have become the major digging appendage, while the arms are used to anchor the animal in place during burrowing behavior. As such, the arms have migrated down and back, so as to provide a good grip while remaining out of the way of the legs while digging. Their ancestors may have been xenochiropterids that moved to a primarily terrestrial existence, but retained their wings. The arms would have moved down and back to better support their weight, and this would then give way to the current anatomy.

It was discovered during a survey of the desert-savannah border, where they were seen coming in and out of burrows. An ultrasound scan undetectable by the Harrál, and hopefully these animals as well, revealed that the burrows are part of a large interconnected den, suggesting that these animals are a colonial species. More study will be needed to see if this is true.

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Title is full of FAIL.

Working on coming up with a scientific name, but I have next to no knowledge of Latin, which would be REALLY helpful in constructing the scientific names. I know what the English translation of it's name would be, I just don't know how to put it in Latin. Kinda depressing.

I realize this one might be just a bit out there, and thus encourage you to ask about anything you might want to know.

It would have been up yesterday, but I was having some internet issues.

I think the illustration came out pretty well. Sorry for no background, I couldn't come up with one I liked.

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Kinda figured out what it's classification is. It may not be 100% accurate, so if you happen to know whether or not it's correct, and could tell me what the correct form would be, please do.

It supposedly means "burrowing wing".

Description
Common name: --------------------

Scientific name: Fossuroptera schultzii

Fossuroptera schultzii, a recently discovered, burrowing member of the family Xenochiropterae. The creature belongs to a species of small colonial animals, much like the meerkats of Earth’s Kalahari Desert.

The wings have become the major digging appendage, while the arms are used to anchor the animal in place during burrowing behavior. As such, the arms have migrated down and back, so as to provide a good grip while remaining out of the way of the legs while digging. Their ancestors may have been xenochiropterids that moved to a primarily terrestrial existence, but retained their wings. The arms would have moved down and back to better support their weight, and this would then give way to the current anatomy.

It was discovered during a survey of the desert-savannah border, where they were seen coming in and out of burrows. An ultrasound scan undetectable by the Harrál, and hopefully these animals as well, revealed that the burrows are part of a large interconnected den, suggesting that these animals are a colonial species. More study will be needed to see if this is true.

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Title is full of FAIL.

Working on coming up with a scientific name, but I have next to no knowledge of Latin, which would be REALLY helpful in constructing the scientific names. I know what the English translation of it's name would be, I just don't know how to put it in Latin. Kinda depressing.

I realize this one might be just a bit out there, and thus encourage you to ask about anything you might want to know.

It would have been up yesterday, but I was having some internet issues.

I think the illustration came out pretty well. Sorry for no background, I couldn't come up with one I liked.

----Edit----
Kinda figured out what it's classification is. It may not be 100% accurate, so if you happen to know whether or not it's correct, and could tell me what the correct form would be, please do.

It supposedly means "burrowing wing".