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Ecomorph

A body-type defined by the part of the environment an organism exploits rather than by ancestry - species occupying the same kind of niche tend to share a form even when they are not close relatives. The Caribbean's Anolis lizards show it best: on each of the Greater Antilles they split into the same roughly six recurring forms - a twig type, a trunk-ground type - yet matching forms across islands are not close kin. The thanator, viperwolf and banshee are Pandora's ecomorphs.