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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.<sup>1</sup>
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.<sup>1</sup>
==Related Articles==
*[[Species of Tyranid]]
==Sources==
*<sup>1</sup>: [[Chapter Approved 2001]], p.103
[[Category:Troops (Tyranids)]]
[[Category:Gargantuan Creatures]]
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.<sup>1</sup>
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.<sup>1</sup>
==Related Articles==
*[[Species of Tyranid]]
==Sources==
*<sup>1</sup>: [[Chapter Approved 2001]], p.103
[[Category:Troops (Tyranids)]]
[[Category:Gargantuan Creatures]]
