🌊 Tethys Shallows

A small, hardy fish of the tidal shallows that grubs through silt for plankton and detritus.

A placid, broad-jawed creature that mows the algal mats coating the lagoon reeds.

A worm-like dweller of the oxygen-poor muck, sifting buried detritus from the silt.

A streamlined, restless swimmer that chases plankton clouds through open water.

A patient ambush predator that lurks at channel edges and lunges at passing shoals.

Leaps from the water on stiffened fins, gliding over the surface to snatch drifting insects.

Hauls itself across exposed mudflats at low tide on four stubby limbs, gulping air.

Skims across the lagoon's surface film on six slender legs, snatching tiny prey.

A small armored scavenger that sidles through tidepools cleaning up the dead.

Strings silk between reed stalks to snare drifting insects above the water.

A tiny, quick-witted hunter that jets through the shallows, flushing its skin with color.

Rasps algal films from reed stalks with a toothed radula, sheltering in a coiled shell.

A segmented worm that threads through the oxygen-starved muck, eating buried detritus.

Pulses gently through the warm shallows, trailing stinging tentacles to catch plankton.

A photosynthetic mat that roots across the sunlit mudflats, binding the silt.

A decomposer fungus that blooms on rotting detritus, casting spores on the tide.

A colonial microbe that layers itself into living stromatolite mats on the seafloor.