Haruspex
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The Haruspex is essentially the very embodiment of "OMNOMNOMNOM" within the Tyranid race (Which is saying something, given the reputation of the nids), its obvious specialty is in assault and eating things. Lots of things. To aid it in this task it has a mouth that wouldn't be too out of place in your average tentacle hentai. The tentacles work just as good for tearing apart enemy combatants as they do for eating named enemy combatants.
It received an official model in a shared kit with the Exocrine in the 6th edition release of Codex: Tyranids.
In the grand GeeDubs tradition of Tyranid vocabulary names, "haruspex" was the job title of a Roman fortune-teller. Except it was a specific brand of fortune telling what used sheep livers/intestines instead of anything reasonable and not-disgusting. Just in case you were wondering why the Haruspex looks like it's barfing up its own digestive system.
On the Tabletop
Another melee monstrous creature, though focused on infantry instead of vehicles. It can shoot out its tongue to grab things before charging, and it even has the Precision Shots rule on this tongue.
The general consensus is that it's situational and rather unimpressive, much like the rest of the Elites slots following the removal of Ymgarl genestealers, the nerfing to Hive Guards and Zoanthropes, the moving of the Deathleaper, and the lack of fixes to any of the problems that made Lictors and Pyrovores bad. Though at least the Venomthropes got better. However, it's presence does now mean the Tyranids have monstrous creatures in every slot (except dedicated transport now that mycetic spores are gone). So with the exception of termagants to unlock Tervigons; it is now possible to make an all-nidzilla list.