[Equid Phantasm]

You asked for a combination of animals well here we have it, just like on your front page with one minor exception.

It is a fish with butterfly wings and paws like you asked, true, but instead of wolf paws I gave it tiger's paws and used the Tiger Swallowtail butterfly as this version with a little longer swallowtail.

The butterflish is a newly found tropical species that survives in either the tropical forests or the corresponding oceans surrounding them and even a few have adapted to fresh water lakes and rivers. It has a long dorsal fin and tail like the freshwater angelfish species with legs and paws and slenderized body of a large predatory cat such as the cheetah but in this version it's a tiger. It is approximately 2-3 feet tall at the shoulder (While standing on land) and 8 to 12 feet long at maturity (On land) including it's long wavy sturdy tail. While in the water though its size seems smaller because the dorsal fin smooths backward and the legs curl back.

When on land (On which you can usually find it during early to mid afternoon), it is a voracious predator. It uses it's long antennas to catch scents by particles in the air and somehow knows what's what by the size of the particles or some way close to that. (I'm guessing about the antennas because there is no scientific evidence yet due to it's newly found status. )It also has fantastic eyesight. If you see it's antennas waving back and forth or up and down, watch out, it's caught your scent.

It can hunt either by running down it's prey with it's slender light weight body, and it's aerodynamic dorsal fin and tail which are used for steering like a cheetah, or it can fly just as well and swoop down on land animals or birds. It does have some difficulty in getting itself aloft though much the same as large birds do. This cute looking predator prefers small game animals like turkeys or rabbits. It has been known to bring down an animal as large as an antelope or deer. it does hunt while in the water but only rarely and then it prefers tunas and unfortunately it seems to favor salmon meat. It does have a weakness and that is the fact that it cannot stay on land for more than several hours each day due to the slime coat nature of it's body. If it were to stay on land, it would dry and crack and die. Draught is the fresh water versions worst enemy as they have no natural predators although the Great White shark and/or the Killer Whale seem to be the salt water version's worst enemies.

Of course it can come in any color that either a large cat (Lion, tiger, cheetah, etc.) or a butterfly can come in, and even some fish species color patterns, but I chose the Tiger swallowtail butterfly for the primary example of the race.

I hope you enjoy my creation, I had been thinking of a good land/water animal for some time now even before your contest and your ideas combined with my own made it look great. I plan on making it an adoptable as soon as I have caught up my other 2 adoptables and 2 commissions.

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[Celestial Skies]

beautiful!

[Equid Phantasm]

Thank you. It will be an adoptable soon. I will be designing them and then auctioning them. I will also take suggestions on theme type things like the 4 seasons, that kind of thing but not til after I do a few of them on my own.

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[Equid Phantasm]

Reserving this slot for future use.

[.~Oranges~.]

So cool !

[Gezza]

Wow. This is amazing!

[WazzinGator]

AWESOME!
:DDD

[The 49th Alias]

-points and sputters- ITS SO CUTE!!!! XD <3

[Pyrrha Nikos]

So cute!