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== Tropical Gulf ==

===Tropical Searay (Southern Ice Ray)===

'''Tropical Searays''' are carnivorous fish that make their homes in the warm waters of the Tropical Gulf, being found at Near-Surface to Mid-Range depths.

Tropical Searays have flat manta-ray like bodies and hunt either solitarily or in a mated pair. They mate for life, and in fact, if one of the pair dies, the other will waste away, refusing to eat, seemingly mourning its lost partner.

Tropical Searays are semi-nocturnal, occasionally hunting at night, where they come closer to the surface. Here, in the moonlight, at seemingly random intervals, they gracefully somersault and backflip in the water. These hauntingly beautiful "dances" are a complete mystery, and no one has any idea as to why they are performed.

Tropical Searays are near the size of a dolphin, but almost 2-3 times as wide, owing to their "wingspan", the modified fins that 'flap' through the water, providing locomotion.

===Tentacle Leech===
[[File:TentacleLeech_00.png|150px|thumb|Tentacle Leech]]
A horrifying blood-sucking parasite, the '''Tentacle Leech''' can be found wherever there are '''Ravesharks'''.
 
Tentacle Leeches evolved from a species of slug-like leech that attached to many aquatic species, especially the Ravesharks. After feeding on, and being eventually eaten by, their Raveshark hosts, a chance mutation making the leech's ancestors "taller" with longer tentacles proved to be a vital change for the species. While many of their cousins continued their normal way of life (and these eventually became the ''Slugiformes'', see the entry for: [[Triumph_of_Spring_(Fortune:_Evolution_Game)#Rock Slug|Rock Slugs]]), the new, longer, taller leeches began infiltrating the Raveshark's tentacles, latching on to them at their base, gorging on blood until the tentacle withers away, and then the leech takes its place, eventually fusing its body into the shark's as it uses its twin tentacles to feed the rave shark and its durable rocky shell to protect from its host's ravenous maw. The hosts appear either to not notice or not care about the replacement of a few tentacles in this manner.

The anonymous poster who created the Tentacle Leech has stated that this creature was inspired by a real-world parasite called the  [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cymothoa_exigua tongue louse] (''Link not recommended for the squeamish'').

There are a number of species of Tentacle Leeches adapted for particular breeds of Ravesharks, with bioluminescent spots simulating the 'light show' of the sharks.

===Shadow Raveshark===

===Common Raveshark===

===Rock Slug===

===Fire Guppy===

===Treasure Fish===

The Treasure Fish is a herbivorous relative of the Shadow Raveshark. Native to shallow waters near the coasts the Treasure Fish's scales gleam like molten gold in the sunlight. Sometimes it's even difficult to see against the glare off its scales as they reflect the tropical sunlight.

Treasure Fish live together as mated pairs. They mate for life but do not tend their young. When the young (young Treasure Fish are called "dubloons") hatch they band together, in all their hundreds, in schools called "hoards".
The young eat, play, and hunt together. When two hoards meet, the males and females of each often pair up, separating and leaving their hoards to live with their mate. Of course, the ratio of males/females isn't even, so often what is left is a small token hoard of fish, and they will search for other hoards to pair off with. 

===Stingers===
[[File:Stinger_00.png|200px|thumb|left|Adult-form Stinger]]
The '''Stinger''' is a strange, jellyfish-like creature common to all ocean regions, and is common from deep to sea-floor depths.

Stingers are entirely dependent on the '''Ravesharks''' for the propagation of their species. At the beginning of their life-cycle, they float in the sea covered in a tough shell as fertilized eggs, only hatching once ingested by a Ravedragon. Once hatched into voracious little ''medusae'', they feed greedily on the Ravedragon's intestinal tract as well as any partially-digested food they can find within, all the while constantly spewing gametes behind them. This results in a spray of fertilized eggs and Stingers the next time the Raveshark defecates. Being ejected in this manner marks the end of the Stinger's medusae phase.
Now free-floating in the ocean, the Stingers balloon up into large filter-feeding free-floating jellyfish. 
Unlike other species, Stingers actually ''lose'' the ability to reproduce as they age (rather than gaining the ability with maturation) They do not mate again, living a pointless existence until eaten by some other animal.

Stingers, as evinced by some similarities in their life-cycle (the presence of a parasitic medusae phase as well as the need to be eaten by a Raveshark) are actually close relatives of the '''Rock Slugs''', having split off from their "parent's" genus near the end of the Ice Age.
Another trait shared with its cousin is the segment of poisonous individuals within the larger species. If ingested by the specific species of Raveshark called '''Ravedragons''', the medusae will steal some of the creature's toxin cells "on the way out" granting the adult-form stinging tentacles of its own.

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