REP: The Undertakers

The lifestyle of the scavenging undertakers can best be described as akin to carrion beetles. Adults have a very keen sense of smell, which they use to seek out the decacing remains of vermiphytes and mobile animals alike. They will use their razor-like lip teeth to cut a chunk of carrion off, then fly with it to a suitable hiding place and lay an egg next to it. There are many variations in this basic formula: In some species it's exclusively the males collecting carrion, which they use to impress the females, in others only females collect carrion before or after mating. Some species cut off a piece of carrion per egg, which they will hide in one place, using a different hideout for each eggs, others place several pieces of carrion together with the entire clutch in one place. The hideouts of choice can be crevices in rock or bark, pot-like constructs molded with clay or self-dug burrows. The young will feed on the carrion reserve until it is used up, then they leave the hideout and feed on very different types of food, including small animals, vermiphyte tissue, exudates and microorganisms. The characteristic teeth only grow when adulthood is reached.

Undertakers are cosmopolitan, with their main hotspots of diversity being the temperate aeras of the Northern Continent and the midgardroot savannahs of the Western Continent.

Savannah Gnasher: Rather than looking for carrion to feed their young with, gnashers will attack living organisms to cut a piece of flesh off. They possess larger, fewer teeth and a lot of species have a modified pair of front teeth, which they use to administer their pain-numbing saliva before cutting. Gnashers are particularly attracted to open wounds and will hamper its healing greatly, and with large enough densities of gnashers around their feeding activities can be lethal. However, low densities of small gnasher species can aid in the healing of infected wounds, as they will remove the festering tissue and their saliva has antibiotic properties.

Purring Sawtooth: Sawteeth are a group that specializes on feeding on the tough tissue of some vermiphyte groups, particularly the harnessplants. Their teeth possess serrated edges to deal with the fibers better.