Several types of primitive creatures
Tal's Primitive Creatures(原生生物) are the native beings of planet Tal that include Talyxians, and they originally don't hail from Eltus. Most of Tal's wildlives are classified to them.
Most are non-humanoid, look like what would be considered a monster: horrendous mollusks-like creatures similar to land octopuses or invertebrate leeches with some peculiar insect features. The ones domesticated to be used like a horse or a pig would be on Earth will definitely appear strange to the average people.
Pretty much the majority of those are classified in the "Shellfish" family (conchology).
Canon version of a buffalo on Tal a.k.a Buffalo Shellfish.
In a normal conversation between Tal inhabitants, these creatures specifically are known as "Protists" (and differ from Earth's protists).
Most of them have a danger to sentient races such as Eltus, but also most are tamed as domestic animals or pets.
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Definition
Usually, people call "primitive creatures" while show common wildlives living in primeval forest and so on. But in strict definition, all creatures that lived in Tal from old days than Eltus races are classified under primitive creatures. Also Talyxians are included to them.
Flora
Sergals in the Thekan that is Talyxian-Plants grassy plain or woods.
The common "plants" of Tal are akin to sessile organisms similar to barnacles, actinia, sponges, or basket stars. Most of those are classified under Talyxian-Plants. They usually don't have chlorophyl, and their features are totally different from Earth's common flora. They also are primitive creatures.
Main article:Talyxian-Plants
Green plants with chlorophyl similar to the ones from Earth are belonging to Eltus-Plants, not Tal's original flora. And they are fairly rare sight, making them a desirable and fairly valuable item on Tal.
Domestic animals
Female Nevrean milkman who rides the shellfish horse, and she sell the "shellfish milk" to sergal.
There are various domestic animals in Tal, most known domestic animals (mainly quadruped herbivores like a cows, horses, pigs, and sheep) were derived from shellfish creatures. Shellfish species are generally docile, harmless for sentient races, and people can tame them easy, and are able to do selective breeding. But also they will become easy to feral animals if they lost owner or left from cultured habitation.
They have a good quality of their meat, most of them are able to be ridden by people for locomotion, and a "shellfish milk" that are taken from cow-type of them is very popular animal products in Southern dairy farmer.
Cows, bulls, and horses are usually called as "shellfish", but there also are domestic animals that are not classified under shellfish species; chickens, birds, dogs, and feral animals maybe show nature of Talyxian or so on. Such animals have very various differences of physical features, for example there are very long legs things, legless things, and small bipedal things that are tamed as pets. Unlike Earth's biology, their species division are not classified in strict definition by people. As common features of Tal's living things, they are able to be done crossbred or selective breeding by biology experts even if they have totally different appearances mutually.
Classification
They generally fall into roughly broad classifications: Shellfish species, sessile organisms, Talyxian species like Rooters, Stalkers, and Associators. Talyxian-type small animals, feral animals that show both nature of shellfish and Talyxian, large leeches and actinia that are known as a part of shellfish that have fierce nature, and so on.
Feral animals that show Talyxian nature may fade their inorganic features and change to shellfish-like nature if they are tamed by people.
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