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How could I say no to a personal request?

She won't say yes, but you should invite Tiruin as well, for old time's sake.

Submitted my turn early for once 

Speciate Lungenose Dropseal:
A. Improve social cohesion for closer pods (perhaps a clan system)
B. Improve crushing jaw power for opening up hexturtle egg shells and domes, and send to the Bir Shallows

Speciate the Fatty Spireater - [SS]
A. Sequential hermaphroditism, to maximise egg laying by dynamically rebalancing the sex distribution (which may be skewed in any given moment by the heavy predation)
B. Massive keratin spikes from all parts, leaving it looking like a living sea-mine, skewering most feeding attempts

Speciate the Robustjaw Megalocod:
A. Give micromuscles and perfectly smooth out the scales, so that they can made to suddenly align, giving a mirror-like effect, either to dazzle when near the water surface, or to make the Megalocod more invisible in darker waters -> move to Eke Shallows
B. Evolve a new internal stomach organ, a rotting chamber, where poisonous creatures can be swallowed whole and broken down safely before moving on to the rest of its digestive system.

Speciate the Furryfin Spireater
A- Increase size even further (to continue out-eating other creatures)
B - Evolve to exude a chemical to encourage the chemoreceptive Domedwellers to build domes on its back, giving it a level of protection -> move to Bir Shallows

That was my strat with the Yunus in the last game. But there are predators who can go on land in this game so I'm not sure how effective your seal plan will be. My predatory Lungenose Dropseals have lungs and are already called seals...

[SS]  Speciate Pear-ly Megalocod
1. Calcify cartillage in jaws to give stronger bite able to eat things whole without tasting
2. Intensify acidity of digestive system for breaking down hard stuff turtle shells, bones, domes, etc.

Speciate Spireater Elecod
1. Cover in keratin fur to keep warm in ice age
2. Layer on blubber for warmth and calory storage and move to Uch Shallows

Speciate Remora pancod
1. Evolve ovipostor for injecting eggs into prey (or under shells, say) and send to Bir Shallows
2. Evolve tendrils to allow better latch onto prey

Speciate Lungenose Dropseal
1. Improve brainpower, focusing on stalking behaviour, for snatching eggs and taking young
2. Evolve razor pincer on the hooked claws, primarily for snipping back sails, legs, flippers etc...

It's not BlackSpice, so he's welcome to it. A

Is merging possible here?

Probably not easily. TricMagic's whole gimmick in the last game was cross-speciating spore stuff. He eventually merged a bunch of them into a sort of hivemind, somehow. Magma allowed other weird creative stuff like:

- a creature that was so big it became a biome
- environment-destroying civilisation
- domestication

In this game I'm focusing on one overall species, with selection determining which survive and become the primary.
Parasites will never be Apex, but you can't really get rid of them

Probably easier than trying to juggle half a dozen different branches.