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Opee Sea Killer

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this huge, aquatic beast is found in the oceans of the planet Naboo. It resembles a thick-bodied fish, although it has eight insectile legs and is generally crustacean in appearance. Its mouth is filled with pointed teeth, and its eyes glow a fierce orange-red in the depths of the sea. The opee sea killer catches its prey with its long, flexible tongue, which could measure more than twice its body length and was covered with sticky mucus. At birth, an opee sea killer measured just two meters in length. Young opees are hatched from eggs which are protected within the mouth of their father until their hatch. Even after hatching the young can find refuge in their father's mouth. However, newly-hatched opees are capabale of hunting for themselves. By adulthood, the average opee sea killer measured 20 meters in length, although there were a pair of dwarf opees kept at the Otoh Gunga Zoological Research Facility before the Battle of Naboo. Despite their size, they were no less dangerous than their full-sized cousins.