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Cryptic Fauna Lexicon of Zoology
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Across
  • 1. Describes creatures that devour tree matter.
  • 5. Specialized study of feathered aviators.
  • 7. Extinct velvet worm-like animals, ancestral to arthropods.
  • 8. Mollusk with ink defense, tentacles aplenty.
  • 10. Soft-bodied invertebrate, often with a calcareous shell.
  • 12. Eight-legged class, spiders belong here.
Down
  • 2. Natural light emission in deep-sea or fireflies.
  • 3. Thick-skinned terrestrial megafauna, etymologically ‘thick skin’.
  • 4. Order of nocturnal raptors with silent flight.
  • 6. Process or creature transforming form during life.
  • 9. Cryptic coloration or pattern disguising an animal.
  • 11. Ecological interaction involving hunting and consumption.
  • 13. Numerous-legged arthropods, centipedes and millipedes.
  • 14. Monotreme spiny mammal, egg-layer from down under.

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