"all animal type monsters are based on real world animals. Creature entries based on mythological, fictional, or nonexistent animals are usually classified as magical beasts (see below). Besides ordinary fish, birds, reptiles and mammals, the animal type is also applied to depictions of dinosaurs, prehistoric animals, and ""dire"" or specially modified, often larger and scarier, versions of real world animals. Some real world animals are not given the animal type in the game. Examples include arthropods (insects, spiders, etc.) and worms, which the game classifies as ""vermin"" (see below) and not animals. Mollusks, such as octopuses, are often classified as"
"within coastal rivers but seldom beyond the head of tide. A few landlocked populations may exist in freshwater lakes close to shore, for example on Digby Neck, Nova Scotia. Mummichogs are omnivorous. Analyses of their stomach contents have found diatoms, amphipods and other crustaceans, molluscs, fish eggs (including their own species), very small fish, insect larvae, and bits of eelgrass. This fish is well known for its ability to withstand a variety of environmental conditions. They can survive temperatures between ; even within the same tidal cycle they can tolerate rapid temperature changes from . They are among fish species"
"but thick, with a deep caudal peduncle. Usual length is but a maximum length of up to is possible. The mouth is upturned and the lower jaw protrudes when the mouth is closed. Pectoral and tail fins are round. Mummichogs have 10-13 dorsal fin rays, 9-12 anal fin rays, 16-20 pectoral fin rays. Males have larger dorsal and anal fins than females. There is no lateral line on the body, but lateral line pores are present on the head. The colour is variable (and may even change in shade within the same individual when placed near different backgrounds) but is"
"the behavior of its host in a way beneficial to the parasite, as conspicuous behaviors near the surface make the fish more likely to be noticed by predatory wading birds, the next host in the parasite's life cycle. Mummichogs are sold as bait in sport fisheries for marine species such as summer flounder and bluefish, or even sometimes for freshwater species. Mummichogs readily eat mosquito larvae and attempts have been made to use them as biocontrol agents of mosquito populations. Mummichogs are considered an important environmental model organism because of their ability to tolerate various extremes of chemical (pollution, etc.)"
"also distinguished based on slight morphological and genomic differences. Most mummichogs become sexually mature when two years old, around in length. Normal lifespan is four years. Mummichogs are hosts to a parasitic fluke, ""Homalometron pallidum"", which has a complex lifecycle involving the aquatic snail, ""Ecrobia truncata"". Other parasite species reported in mummichogs include 10 protozoans, eight trematodes, one nematode, two acanthocephalans, and two crustaceans. A study in New Jersey found that mummichogs heavily infested with the digenean gill parasite ""Ascocotyle phagicola"", spent more time near the surface and exhibited conspicuous behaviors such as jerking, an example of a parasite affecting"
"they wait to be ingested by a mummichog. In its gut, they develop into adult worms ready to undergo sexual reproduction and start the cycle again. Other fish have been identified as also acting as a host to the adult worms, including ""Menticirrhus saxatilis"", ""Morone americana"", ""Pseudopleuronectes americanus"", ""Tautoga onitis"", and ""Bairdiella chrysura"". However, in some of these cases, the worm species could have been improperly identified. Homalometron pallidum Homalometron pallidum is a species of marine trematodes in the family Apocreadiidae. It is an endoparasite of the mummichog, ""Fundulus heteroclitus"", a small fish found in brackish water along the east"
"at the genomic variation exhibited by mummichogs populations living in Newark Bay, New Bedford Harbor, and the Elizabeth River (Virginia) (in some areas heavily polluted with polychlorinated biphenyls and creosote, a complex mixture containing dioxin-like chemicals) and has found that about 20% of their genes were modified as compared to populations living in clean sites. Mummichogs live in dense shoals that can include several hundred individuals. During cold winter months in the northern parts of their range, mummichogs move to upstream tidal pools, where they burrow into the mud at depths up to to overwinter. They can also bury themselves"
"in mud if they are caught in a drying tidal pool between spring tides. Alternatively, they can travel short distances on land to get back to the sea. In the laboratory, mummichogs have yielded clear examples of free-running circadian rhythms, in both body colour and swimming activity. For the latter, clear rhythms were obtained in single individuals as well as in groups of 5 or 25 individuals. Evidence of free-running semi-lunar rhythms have also been obtained in mummichogs: in constant laboratory conditions, egg production peaked every 14.8 days for up to 5 months. Spawning takes place from spring through fall."
"most tolerant of salinity changes (euryhaline). Mummichog larvae can grow in salinities ranging from 0.4 to 100 parts per thousand, the latter being about three times the normal salinity of seawater. Adult mummichogs tolerate low oxygen levels down to 1 mg/L, at which they resort to aquatic surface respiration (breathing in the surface layer of water, richer in oxygen because of contact with air) to survive. They can even survive for a few hours in moist air outside of water, breathing air directly. Populations have developed resistance to methylmercury, kepone, dioxins, polychlorinated biphenyl, and polyaromatic hydrocarbons. One study has looked"
"morphological differences. and genomic Further, eggs of the northern subspecies have filaments (adhesive chorionic fibrils) that eggs of the southern subspecies lack. While the northern subspecies deposits eggs in the sand, the southern subspecies often deposits eggs inside empty mussel shells. The mummichog is very similar to the banded killifish, ""Fundulus diaphanus"", and indeed the two species have been known to interbreed. The two species may overlap in their choice of habitat, but in general the banded killifish is more commonly found in freshwater, which is not the case for the mummichog. The banded killifish tends to have thin dark"
"Simosuchus Simosuchus (meaning ""pug-nosed crocodile"" in Greek, referring to the animal's blunt snout) is an extinct genus of notosuchian crocodylomorphs from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar. It is named for its unusually short skull. Fully grown individuals were about in length. The type species is Simosuchus clarki, found from the Maevarano Formation in Mahajanga Province. The teeth of ""S. clarki"" were shaped like cloves (maple leaves), which coupled with its short and deep snout suggest it was not a carnivore like most other crocodylomorphs. In fact, these features have led many palaeontologists to consider it an herbivore. ""Simosuchus"" was small,"
"Bushpig The bushpig (""Potamochoerus larvatus"") is a member of the pig family and lives in forests, woodland, riverine vegetation and reedbeds in East and Southern Africa. Probably introduced populations are also present in Madagascar. There have also been unverified reports of their presence on the Comoro island of Mayotte. Bushpigs are mainly nocturnal. There are several subspecies. Adult bushpigs stand from at the shoulder, and weigh from . They resemble the domestic pig, and can be identified by their blunt, muscular snouts, small eyes, pointed, tufted ears and buckled toes. Their colour varies from reddish brown to dark brown and"
"Striped killifish The striped killifish (""Fundulus majalis""), also called the striped mummichog, is a North American species fundulid killifish. It lives in salt and brackish waters in shallow coastal regions from New Hampshire to Florida. It exhibits sexual dimorphism, with the males having vertical black stripes and the mature females having horizontal black stripes along the sides of their silver-colored bodies. Juvenile females have vertical stripes, however, and one or two vertical stripes remain at the end of the tail even on adult females. The striped killifish reaches lengths of 6 (or occasionally 7) inches. In Feb 1916, Popular Science"
"Amphiprion mccullochi Amphiprion mccullochi, also known as whitesnout anemonefish or McCulloch's anemonefish, is a species of anemonefish found in subtropical waters at Lord Howe Island and Norfolk Island.. It was named for Allan McCulloch, a former Curator of Fishes at the Australian Museum, Sydney. Like all anemonefishes it forms a symbiotic mutualism with sea anemones and is unaffected by the stinging tentacles of the host anemone. It is a sequential hermaphrodite with a strict sized based dominance hierarchy: the female is largest, the breeding male is second largest, and the male non-breeders get progressively smaller as the hierarchy descends. They"
"Mušḫuššu The mušḫuššu (; formerly also read as ""sirrušu"", ""sirrush"") is a creature from ancient Mesopotamian mythology. A mythological hybrid, it is a scaly dragon with hind legs resembling the talons of an eagle, feline fore legs, a long neck and tail, a horned head, a snake-like tongue, and a crest. The mušḫuššu most famously appears on the reconstructed Ishtar Gate of the city of Babylon, dating to the sixth century BC. The form is the Akkadian nominative of the Sumerian , ""reddish snake"", sometimes also translated as ""fierce snake"". One author, possibly following others, translates it as ""splendor serpent"""
"Amiskwia Amiskwia is a genus of large, soft-bodied animals of unknown affinity known from fossils of the Middle Cambrian Lagerstätten both in the Burgess shale formation in British Columbia and the Maotianshan shales of Yunnan Province, China. Very few specimens of this organism have been found, only eighteen of the Burgess shale species, ""A. sagittiformis"", and a single specimen of the Maotianshan species, ""A. sinica"" — which may be a reflection of its genuine rarity, but is more likely to be due to taphonomic (preservational) or behavioural factors. The fossils reach in length. The head is rounded, tipped with two"
"Potamochoerus Potamochoerus (meaning ""river pig"") is a genus in the pig family (Suidae). The two species are restricted to sub-Saharan Africa, although the bushpig, possibly due to introduction by man, also occurs in Madagascar and nearby islands. Early in the 20th century, there were considered to be as many as five different species within the genus. These were gradually consolidated, until, in the 1970s, it was generally agreed that all were representatives of just a single species (""P. porcus""). The bushpig was again recognised as a separate species from about 1993. The oldest fossils that can be assigned to the"
"Cimexomys Cimexomys is an extinct North American mammal that lived from the Upper Cretaceous to the Paleocene. For a while, it shared the world with dinosaurs, but outlived them. It was a member of the extinct order Multituberculata and lies within the suborder Cimolodonta. It is perhaps a member of the Paracimexomys group, though it's not certain. The genus ""Cimexomys"" (""bug mouse"") was named by Sloan and Van Valen in 1965. Most remains are restricted to teeth. ""Cimex"" means ""bug"", with reference to the type locality of ""Cimexomys minor"" in the Bug Creek Anthills in Montana, United States. The inclusion"
"species, ""Hemiechinus auritus"" is an insectivore that forages in the early evening looking for insects, myriapods, gastropods, batrachians (amphibians), small vertebrates and plants. It may even eat snakes or other vertebrates by curling up to protect its underside as it eats the struggling prey. They prefer to live near a water source. However, if this is not available they depend on their food source for their water intake The long-eared Hedgehog is active throughout much of the year and hibernates for shorter periods of time. The longest reported hibernation is 40 days. This hibernation may come in the summer or"
"outlined by Keskar ""et al"". Nemacheilus rueppelli Nemacheilus rueppelli, also known as the mongoose loach is a species of stone loach from rivers in India. It includes ""Nemachilichthys shimogensis"", which frequently is recognized as a valid species from the Thunga River in Karnataka, but Keskar ""et al."" 2015 treat them as synonyms, while Fishbase says the name is misapplied and should not be used as ""N. shimgoensis"" is treated as a separate species by Fishbase and the IUCN. According to Keskar ""et al"", 2015 this species is placed in the monotypic genus ""Nemachilichthys"" but Fishbase retains it in ""Nemacheilus""., although"
"It also occurs on Madagascar and possibly the Comoros archipelago. It is not known how it reached these islands, but it was probably taken there by humans, possibly after a period of domestication. Subspecies include: Bushpig The bushpig (""Potamochoerus larvatus"") is a member of the pig family and lives in forests, woodland, riverine vegetation and reedbeds in East and Southern Africa. Probably introduced populations are also present in Madagascar. There have also been unverified reports of their presence on the Comoro island of Mayotte. Bushpigs are mainly nocturnal. There are several subspecies. Adult bushpigs stand from at the shoulder, and"
"Mimikyu Mimikyu (), known in Japan as , is a Pokémon species in Nintendo and Game Freak's ""Pokémon"" franchise. It was first introduced in ""Pokémon Sun"" and ""Moon"". It is referred to as the ""Disguise Pokémon"", as it is a Pokémon that disguises itself to look like Pikachu in order to make friends. Mimikyu is a small Pokémon, standing at eight inches tall, and is hidden almost entirely underneath a disguise. It has beady black eyes which can be seen through the body of its disguise, and a vague semblance of a foot or lower body can be seen at"
"Myrmeciites Myrmeciites is an extinct form genus of bulldog ants in the subfamily Myrmeciinae of the family Formicidae, which contains three described species and two fossils not placed beyond the genus level. Described in 2006 from Ypresian stage (Early Eocene) deposits, all three of the described species and one unplaced fossil are from British Columbia, Canada, while the second unplaced fossil is from Washington State, USA. These ants were large, with the largest specimens collected reaching . The behaviour of these ants would have been similar to extant Myrmeciinae ants, such as solitary foraging, nesting either in the soil or"
"Nemacheilus rueppelli Nemacheilus rueppelli, also known as the mongoose loach is a species of stone loach from rivers in India. It includes ""Nemachilichthys shimogensis"", which frequently is recognized as a valid species from the Thunga River in Karnataka, but Keskar ""et al."" 2015 treat them as synonyms, while Fishbase says the name is misapplied and should not be used as ""N. shimgoensis"" is treated as a separate species by Fishbase and the IUCN. According to Keskar ""et al"", 2015 this species is placed in the monotypic genus ""Nemachilichthys"" but Fishbase retains it in ""Nemacheilus""., although Catalog of Fishes follows treatment"
"at the end of the snout and the teeth are large and wedge-shaped with three cusps. The pectoral fins are large and extend past the origins of the small pelvic fins. The origin of the anal fin hardly overlaps the trailing edge of the dorsal fin. The caudal peduncle is thick and the caudal fin is truncated and square-ended. The arrangement of the fins, the deep body and the tri-cuspid teeth help to distinguish this fish from the mummichog (""Fundulus heteroclitus""), which is found in the same habitats. The body is covered by large, circular scales, the ones on the"
"in the USA. This species shows similarities to the genus ""Bryceomys"". Cimexomys Cimexomys is an extinct North American mammal that lived from the Upper Cretaceous to the Paleocene. For a while, it shared the world with dinosaurs, but outlived them. It was a member of the extinct order Multituberculata and lies within the suborder Cimolodonta. It is perhaps a member of the Paracimexomys group, though it's not certain. The genus ""Cimexomys"" (""bug mouse"") was named by Sloan and Van Valen in 1965. Most remains are restricted to teeth. ""Cimex"" means ""bug"", with reference to the type locality of ""Cimexomys minor"""
"Mamenchisaurus Mamenchisaurus ( , or spelling pronunciation ) is a sauropod dinosaur genus including several species, known for their remarkably long necks which made up half the total body length. It is known from numerous species which ranged in time from 160 to 145 million years ago, from the Oxfordian to Tithonian ages of the late Jurassic Period of China, and the largest species may have reached in length and possibly weighed 50 to 75 tons. ""Mamenchisaurus"" was first discovered in 1952 on the construction site of the Yitang Highway in Sichuan, China. The partial skeleton fossil was then studied,"
"Amphicyon Amphicyon (""ambiguous dog"") is an extinct genus of large carnivorous bone-crushing mammals, popularly known as bear dogs, of the family Amphicyonidae, subfamily Amphicyoninae, from the Burdigalian Epoch until the late Pliocene. They ranged over North America, Europe, Asia, and Africa from 16.9—2.6 Ma ago, existing approximately . ""Amphicyon"" was the typical bear-dog amphicyonid with morphology similar to both bears and dogs. With its robust build and maximum length of 2.5 m (8 ft), the largest species looked more like a bear than a dog. It had a large heavy tail, thick neck, robust limbs and teeth like a wolf."
"or to feed on nectar, soiling either in the ground or in the trees, making them an arboreal nesting insect. Like other Myrmeciine ants, ""Myrmeciites"" most likely did not lay pheromone trails or recruit nestmates to food sources; these ants may have been solitary foragers, relying on their eyes to hunt for prey and for navigational purposes. The nuptial flight of ""M. (?) tabanifluviensis"" probably occurred during the late spring or summer, as in extant relatives. Myrmeciites Myrmeciites is an extinct form genus of bulldog ants in the subfamily Myrmeciinae of the family Formicidae, which contains three described species and"
"Amphechinus Amphechinus is an extinct genus of hedgehog of the family Erinaceidae, which lived in Asia and Europe during the Oligocene and in North America, Africa, Asia, and Europe during the Miocene. ""Amphechinus"" was named by Auguste Aymard in 1850. It is not extant. It was assigned to Erinaceidae by Aymard (1850), Rich (1981) and Pickford et al. (2000). A single specimen was examined by J. I. Bloch, K. D. Rose, and P. D. Gingerich for body mass and was estimated to have a weight of . Its fossils have been found in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America. ""A."
"Hemicyon Hemicyon, the so-called ""dog-bear"" (literally ""half dog"", from Greek (half) + (dog)), is an extinct genus of the family Hemicyonidae, which probably originated in Eurasia but was found in Europe, Asia and North America during the Miocene epoch (), existing for approximately . ""Hemicyon"" was about long, and tall, with somewhat tiger-like proportions and dog-like teeth. ""Hemicyon"" is widely accepted to have been hypercarnivorous and highly predaceous. Unlike modern bears, ""Hemicyon"" walked on its toes, that is, it was not plantigrade, but digitigrade, with long metapodials. This suggests that ""Hemicyon"" must have been an active hunter and a good"
"Temnocyoninae The Temnocyoninae are an extinct subfamily of medium-sized carnivorous mammals within the family Amphicyonidae endemic to North America that lived during the Early Oligocene to Early Miocene about 30.8-20.43 million years ago (Mya) existing around 10.37 million years. ""Temnocyon"" was named by Cope (1879). Its type is ""Temnocyon altigenis"". It was assigned to the Amphicyonidae by Cope (1879) and Carroll (1988), and to the Temnocyoninae by Hunt (1998). ""Mammacyon"" was named by Loomis (1936). Its type is ""Mammacyon obtusidens"". It was assigned to the Amphicyonidae by Loomis (1936) and Carroll (1988), and to the Temnocyoninae by Hunt (1998). A"
"Simocyon Simocyon (“short-snouted dog”) is a genus of extinct carnivoran mammal in the family Ailuridae. ""Simocyon"", which was about the size of a mountain lion, lived in the late Miocene and early Pliocene epochs, and has been found in Europe, Asia, and, rarely, North America (Peigné et al., 2005) and Africa. The relationship of ""Simocyon"" to other carnivores has been controversial, but studies of the structure of its ear, teeth, and ankle now indicate that its closest living relative is the red panda, ""Ailurus"" (Wang, 1997; Peigné et al., 2005), although it is different enough to be classified in a"