Tropical Sawhead
“ A tropical relative of Sawhead with an anesthetic agent of sleepiness, watch out. ”
– Dominique Llorente
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Synapsida
Class: Vesperosauria
Order: Chiropterosauria
Suborder: Volanosauriforma
Family: Volanosauridae
Subfamily: Volanosaurinae
Genus: Xipharhinopteryx
Species: Xipharhinopteryx australis
Descendant: Varanopidae
Named by: Thomas Henryson
Year Published: 2780
Size: wingspan up to 1.45 meters long, 1.1 meters long in length, 1.04 meters tall in height; 23.4 pounds in weight
Lifespan: 30 years
Activity: Diurnal 🌅, Crepuscular 🌇, Nocturnal 🌃, Cathemeral 🌅🌃
Thermoregulate: Ectotherm, Endotherm
Type(s):
Synapsids (Vesperosaurs)
Fictional
Title(s):
Tropical Sawbat
Acidified Hacker
Pantheon(s):
Reinachan/Ityoselan 🇺🇳💠
Sawintiran 🇺🇳✨
Time Period: Post-Holocene
Alignment: Reactive
Threat Level: ★★★★
Diet: Omnivorous 🥩🌿
Element(s): Air 🌬️
Inflict(s): Sundered 💔, Stench 💩, Fatigue 😫, Bleeding 🩸
Weakness(es): Rock 🪨 (50% immune), Electric ⚡, Ice ❄️
Casualties: ???
Based On:
fictional
Leafwing from Kong movie
Conservation Status:
Reinachos: Least Concern (LC) – IUCN Red List
Sawintir: Least Concern (LC) – IUCN Red List
The Tropical Sawhead (Xipharhinopteryx australis) or Olivine Sawhead, is a fictional species of flying synapsid introduced in Worldcraft: The Center.
The combination of the words saw (act like a Carpenter saw) and head, or forehead, is called a sawhead. Owing to the long rostrum's toothy edges and beak-like structures.
Singular: Sawhead
Plural: Sawheads
The Tropical Sawhead has a long skull with a saw-like rostrum on the nose and teeth-like spines on the bottom, small and pointed ears, teeth hidden in their lips, a long neck, four fingers on their arms, wings similar to pterosaurs, digitigrade legs with white small spurs at the knee and five toes, and smooth and blunt-resistant skin. The Tropical Sawhead has yellowish-olive fur, dull olive skin, a white belly, and a long tail with diamond-shaped and a single stinger at the tip of a tail.
The Sawhead is a skilled aerial acrobat who can glide and twist with ease. Its forked tail allows it to steer and maneuver precisely, even in severe gusts. It can fly for hours on thermals with few wingbeats. The Sawhead has extraordinary eyesight, detecting small prey from more than 100 meters away, and its eyes have evolved to perceive motion swiftly and track prey even while flying fast. The Sawhead either stabbed or sawed with the saw rostrum in a manner similar to that of a carpenter.
The Tropical Sawhead uses anti-numbing agents from its sawrostrum to put adversaries to sleep and never feels pain while asleep owing to the anti-numbing content. The Tropical Sawhead stabs the adversary, dealing more damage before it awakens and feels pain.
The Tropical Sawhead is the lowest in the food chain. They are omnivorous and consist of fruits, fungi, mistletoes, turnips, blueberries, mulberries, bamboo shoots, and even small animals like worms, fish, and others. They spotted a tree with dozens of sawheads perched on its branches in the herd called "Murderer of Sawheads", in mangrove forests and rosewood tree forests. Unlike many of them, the Tropical Sawhead has a nasty anesthetic agent on their rostrum, causing the enemy to sleep with sets of saw teeth in a special sac on their rostrum.
All three species of sawheads have deadly rostrums with sets of teeth that can cut or saw off flesh, paper, clothes, armor, glass, and even plants. Tropical Sawhead eats small animals, and this is where they draw the acidic agent that makes their bites and claws more dangerous, causing the armor or skin of whatever comes into contact with it to weaken, making it easier to inflict more injuries and eviscerate its prey.
It possesses a sleep and acid sac on its teeth on the rostrum or mouth, which allows it to produce a colorless mist that can cause attackers to fall unconscious. The main predators of this animal were varieties of fauna in Horatio, like synapsids, wolves, falcons, and other dragons.
All Sawhead species are solitary or observed in breeding pairs; they are fiercely territorial but normally avoid humans. However, they can be dangerous to people, although assaults are uncommon. Their massive size, saw on the nose, and aggressive disposition when defending their territory allow them to inflict considerable injuries. Attacks on humans are rare and usually occur in certain situations, such as during nest protection or when the saw-nose winged synapsid is provoked, although they continue to pose a hazard as flying pests.
Tropical Sawhead was an endemic species in southern portions of tropical rainforests and monsoon forests in Sawintiran countries, including many archipelagos. It was introduced to the Horatio continent of Reinachos in the 2600s by biologists and hobbyists.
Movement Pattern: Nomadic
Individual Type: Solo
Population Trend: stable
Population: 100,000
Locomotion: airborne
Habitat: Tropical Coniferous Forests; Tropical Moist Broadleaf Forests; Tropical Dry Broadleaf Forests; Tropical Grasslands; Tropical Savannas and Shrublands; Swamp; Bayous/Billabongs; Riparian; Wetland; Mangrove Forest; Cold Bamboo Forests; Tropical Bamboo Forests; Air-breathing Coral Reefs; Graveyard Vale; Mountain; Karst Cave; Karst Spring; Lush Cavern; Crystal Cave; Magnetic Cave; Radiated Vale; Radiated Citadel; Lava Tube; Volcano; Lava Trench; Basalt Delta; Warm Ghost Town; Cold Ghost Town; Ruined Skyscraper.
Reinachos:
Extant & Introduced: ugh
Sawintir/Everrealm:
Extant: Dondami
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2640s
The synapsids emerge from evolution and unique wildlife conservation except for the dinosaur species: Deinonychus. The voliantens are flying bat-like synapsids. Also looked up there are just studied by scientists in conversation and protected by Royal family members.
September 8, 2987
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11/3/2023 - Tropical Sawhead was introduced.