With this picture we continue our coverage of the jawless fish concluding with the first big group we've encountered the Anaspida. This time we see representatives of the last and largest family of the class, the Septentrioniidae. Sadly much like the last few families that I have depicted in this series very little research has been done into this group with there not being much to say about them. The most well known genus (Septentrionia) for which the family got it's name and contains 4 species. It itself got the name from the latin word septentrionēs which refers to the seven stars of the Big Dipper. For Septentrionia lancifera I based the color off of the Orfe (Leuciscus idus) while for S. dissimilis I went with the golden orfe variant that while common in captivity does originate from a mutation seen in the wild. S. mucronata is inspired by the Souffia (Telestes souffia) a common freshwater fish in Europe, and lastly S. seducta was inspired by the rare Balkan Italic Minnow (Phoxinus lumaireul) in terms of coloration.
Top Row: Liivilepis curvata, Manbrookia asperella
Second Row: Ruhnulepis longicostata, Spokoinolepis alternans
Third Row: Septentrionia lancifera, S. dissimilis
Bottom Row: S. mucronata, S. seducta
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