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Dactylis
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A Dactylis is a large Tyranid creature designed to launch Spore Mines from long range with machine-like precision. It's forelimbs are long, multi-jointed and covered in corded tendon and muscle that make a distinctive cracking sound when used to hurl its payload.1
When the Imperium initially encountered the Dactylis, it's ammunition was a parasitic creature known as a Bile Pod which fed off glands at the rear of the Dactylis' cranium. In effect they were similar to a Poison Spore Mine. In more recent encounters the Dactylis has displayed spore-generating colonies of bacteria on its cranial glands which are now able to provide a variety of ammunition.1
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- 1: Chapter Approved 2001, p.103
