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karjalantroll

10 months ago

Cuttlefish

- have no sex, they are neither male nor female biologically, their genitals are designed so that both partners can continue their species

- no nose (smell organ is behind the ears)

- no facial vegetation - no beards, no eyebrows.

- pupils are always wavy in shape.

- average height including tentacles - 163-175 centimetres

- always 6-7 fingers (most often 6)

front teeth are black and much stronger than the rest, they can safely on a permanent basis to chew on seashells or nutshells, without damaging the teeth

Cuttlefish are better immune to stress of all the mollusk-fish, but are absolutely choleric and sometimes aggressive, also like to fight.

Cuttlefish prefer to spawn caviar rather than give birth in the traditional way, as in the conditions of life fish-people under the oppression of humans is very difficult.

Octopuses

- have eyebrows but no beards.
- all octopuses have noses in the usual place.
- eyes change colour (mood or emotion).
- usually the pupils are shaped like stripes or stars.
- only five fingers, just like humans.
- front teeth are as black and strong as those of cuttlefish, but smaller in size.

(picture of a baby octopus, with the caption "eyes open from the first days of life")

Octopuses are very often stereotyped as the most intelligent, graceful and beautiful, in the manner of their unintelligent counterparts that did not evolve from the water and are quite intelligent among fish.
However, this is just a stereotype, octopus-people are exactly the same as all other evolved brethren.

Most of all fish resemble humans (from the tentacles are thin and easy to hide them in trousers, and they can change colours more than others, camouflage...and unlike other mollusks have a nose).

- they don't spawn caviar because they can't.
- In general, very rarely have families and children, for 5 octopus families only 3 will have children and all of them will have one child.

Squid

_ they have no facial hair
_ they have six fingers without webbing
_ they have no nipples
_ pupils are varied! but more often circular or drop-shaped.
_ one black upper and lower tooth in front (much thicker than cuttlefish or octopuses)
_ as sexless as cuttlefish.

2 of the tentacles are different

_ many times taller than cuttlefish and octopus, their height averaging between 183cm and 200+cm.

Squid are often stereotyped as stupid and mentally disabled because of their facial expression and height, but this is just as much a stereotype as saying that all octopuses are graceful and intelligent.

_ ONLY spawn caviar, because they can't give birth directly

Nautiluses

"Г"-shaped posture (perfectly normal and comfortable for them).

_ they have pearlescent ears.
_ they have absolutely no hair, both on their body and face!
_ in some places their ears are not only pearlescent, but it's just a matter of luck.
_ in general they have either five or seven fingers, it varies from person to person.
_ they all have the same colour and type of eyes.

No tentacles like squid, cuttlefish and octopus. Not quite sure what causes this, a random evolutionary feature.

(Variant 2, a differently shaped head.)

_ all teeth (except the chewing teeth) are sharp.

they are the least human-like of all mollusk fishes (and they're very proud of it).

(picture of a baby nautilus outside the caviar and in the caviar)

_ do not spawn caviar...although they could! (moreover, it would reduce the terrible death rate from the first days of life)

Argonauts.

_ unusually shaped heads (this does NOT affect their intelligence)
_ completely different (but ALWAYS circular) pupils.

(hat picture: variant headdress on the shell motif of the non-evolved sea Argonauts)
_ 7-8 fingers (most often 7).

The smallest of the mollusks - their average height is only 143-154 cm.

Smallest group of fish-people, poor survival rate, heavy evolution has reduced their numbers VERY severely.

In the course of evolution lost sexual dimorphism, becoming sexless (like most fish when going on land, by the way), and also lost their shells for lack of use.

_ Can only spawn caviar and do so with a huge number of roe, but only one individual survives until the age of final development of the caviar, and in the conditions in which fish-people live, even this one individual is becoming increasingly rare.

I found it tricky to rework the picture, so I've included the translation in the annotations instead!

Here are some anatomically images of fishes fellas from my fish setting.

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xanderomeister

7 months ago

YEEEEEEAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!

Where are my polyplacorphoran fans at

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xanderomeister

6 months ago

THE SLOP!!!!!

It’s not fair that the west coast has so many giant sea mollusks. I want them on the east coast too.

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yunkert

8 years ago

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liminal-reality

3 years ago

Naked Sea Angels (Clione limacina) are small, free swimming snails. The shell has been lost and the foot has been modified into wing-like paddles for swimming.

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liminal-reality

3 years ago

Flamboyant Cuttlefish

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