Ægiric Ubondo

Some people in the imperium have referred to Eryobis as "a fisherman's paradise". Compared to Earth and the countless colonies of the imperium, Eryobis has a particularly high amount of very large marine creatures that make for great sport fishing. The kicker is, the local goverment of the AnVela Koeliv system encourages sport fishers to come to Eryobis to help document the incredible diversity of marine life that this world possesses. 

A very large portion of the marine biologists currently deployed on Eryobis are indeed just fishermen who take their job seriously.

 As such, a lot of newly found marine creatures also get their names from the fishermen that catch them. While they often call in actual biologists for the binominal names, they tend to give their fish common names with sometimes unclear origins, sometimes derived from their own languages, sometimes from what the native Eryobians call them or something else entirely.

In the case of the Ægiric ubondo (Ubondo aegiricus),  it was named not for any of the above mentioned reasons, but was rather named by the fisherman that first caught it, Agner Ubondo, and named it after himself. At first they called it "Ubondo's fish", but it quickly changed to just "ubondo"  for simplicity's sake.

The Ægiric ubondo grows to around 1.5 meters in length and is a powerfully built pelagic fish with a very large tail fin. While it may not immediately look like one, the ubondo is in fact a kind of bunnyfish, as can be determined by the placement of its pectoral- and pelvic fins. But while a lot of bunnyfish have evolved somewhat shark-like features, the ubondo has evolved to look more like a tuna, with a torpedo shaped body and small front fins. DNA analysis has shown that ubondos are most closely related to the deep sea fish known as gladdos and together they seem to form their own branch at the base of the Odontocoeiida.

Ubondos usually swim between 0 and 70 meters below the surface where they feed on other and typically smaller pelagic fish, as well as llamplelgans and pectinauts.

While most of their teeth are rather small and concealed by their lips, they possess 4 large fangs at the tips of their jaws that are probably used in prey capture, but might also be used for interspecific combat during mating season.