Exobiology Classification

[malloyd]

Originally Posted by Flyndaran

I recently created an alien species that happens to be a non-oxygen producing photosynthesizing-lithotrophic-methanogen with six limbs and a silica denticle covered radula for an "eating" organ. There is literally no earth animal I can imagine that could carry over for naming purposes.

Wait, it eats rocks and sunlight and exhales methane? Where does it get the carbon and hydrogen?