11. Bleeding Tooth Fungus
These peculiar fungi look oddly delicious for something called a "bleeding tooth." This fungus excretes a red sap from its pores. Despite their appearance, they're not that dangerous and are in fact being studied for potential uses in medicine.
As a Pokemon: A Poison/Fairy type is up there as one of my favorites on concept alone. So having a support Pokemon that gives benefits like healing to allies would be an interesting twist for a Poison type. You could even give it a cupcake-like appearance to thrown in a little bit of a dessert theme!
12. Silverfish
Many seem to think Silverfish were a Minecraft invention, but nope, they got em from these! These insects have voracious appetites and are often seen as pests since they enter homes and eat a lot of starchy and sugary foods.
As a Pokemon: The obvious angle is to make it literally silver, ergo, a Steel/Bug type. So it'd be easy enough to say it eats metal to develop its own metal hide!
13. Dodo
Poor Dodos. It's often thought Dodos were animals that were so unintelligent that they went extinct, but they were innocently living on the islands they were native to until colonizers came along and introduced animals such as rats and boar that interfered with their habitat until they quickly died out.
As a Pokemon: Obviously, it's a good candidate for a Fossil Pokemon. My personal idea for a Dodo Pokemon was always having it start out as the misconception of a Dodo. Dumb, dopey, and totally oblivious looking not too unlike Slowpoke. But when it evolves, it turns mean and badass Rock/Dark type and totally angry about how dirty it had been done.
14. Star-nosed Mole
You see Fakemon of this one a lot, I tend to notice, so it seems to be a popular want to be turned into an official Pokemon. The Star-nosed Mole itself is effectively blind, relying on its nose-tentacles sense of touch to be able to sense its way around and detect anything edible.
As a Pokemon: There's all sorts of things you can do with the Star-nosed Mole, so it's no wonder it's a popular subject among Fakemon enthusiasts. I've seen ones that interoperate its nose as a creepy graspy hand. But my own personal interpretation of the Star-nosed Mole is on the literal side where its nose is a star, but minding its blindness, the star it has for a nose is disguised as a face, not too unlike the Stars in Mario games.
15. Sawfish
Another popular pick for a Fakemon, this ray (NOT a shark, as a lot of people mistake it) has adapted a huge nose with spines that it uses to dig for prey and indeed swing around like a weapon. It's practically ALREADY a Pokemon.
As a Pokemon: As much as it would be predictable to give it a chainsaw or hedge-trimmer face and make it Water/Steel or /Ground type, I have a hard time trying to imagine it as anything else. So to put a bit of a spin on it, you could give this animal the Garchomp treatment and turn this normally aquatic creature into a Grass/Steel/Ground (Grass/Ground type with Steelworks?) land dweller.
16. Hydra
No, not that hydra. THIS hydra is an odd, tiny aquatic creature that not only reproduces by budding more of itself off of it, but this odd little animal is also effectively immortal to aging. And, heck, they're even difficult to kill unless you either starve them or just ingest them outright, since they can grow back any chopped-off bits. Even their head!
As a Pokemon: It'd be cool to get this thing as a peculiar little Dragon/Water type with a highly regenerative gimmick to it. Perhaps by starting out weak and pathetic but recovering from fainting if given enough time, coming back with a second, third, fourth, and so on heads each time and being slightly more powerful each head it grows.
17. Weeping Willow
Maybe it's just because my grandparent's house had one growing in their yard, but I have a fascination with weeping willows as trees. And if Trevenant means a conventional tree-mon would be out of the question, a weeping willow would be my first go-to.
As a Pokemon: Because the tree really likes standing water and due to its long, droopy branches, it's an easy enough basis for a Grass/Water dryad-looking creature. Giving it a perpetually sad personality is a little predictable, but being shy and softspoken while hiding its face behind its brachy hair would be a fitting twist.
18. Parasitoid Wasp
There's many species of these, but these wasps act as parasites in their larval form before growing into the fully independent wasps. There's several methods, but most of them involve injecting eggs into some hapless bug which is then doomed to have grubs hatch inside of them and eat them from the inside-out. Some species even specifically target caterpillars, which will miraculously live through larvae eating their way out of it, and then bizarrely, will begin coating the newly hatched wasp larvae in their silk right before dying. Apparently, something in the wasp's toxin activates a maternal instinct in the caterpillar to cause it to do this.
As a Pokemon: The easiest method would be to have an Paras situation where one poor, sad little Bug type species that looks nothing like a wasp is doomed to be perpetually infected with these things, and simply evolves into said wasp. But to be even more gruesome, it'd be sad to try evolving any Bug type, like your little Kricketot into a Kricketune, only for a wasp to suddenly emerge from the evolution screen completely unprompted.
A caterpillar Pokemon that acts motherly and maternal to a baby wasp right before it evolves into the wasp itself, now wearing the caterpillar like an accessory or a similar matter to Cubone wearing its mothers skull would also be great, if ridiculously gruesome.
19. Skewer Mantis (?)
This species of mantis was actually only first discovered last year! Imagine! So new that from what I can tell, Carrikerella simpira here doesn't even have a widely accepted common name yet, so I just made one up. And I call it that cause its hunting method is notably more unique to your typical praying mantis. They hide and wait to strike like normal mantises, but when it's time to strike, they impale their prey onto their barbed forelimbs and then begin chowing down! Brutal!
As a Pokemon: A Bug/Steel mantis Pokemon taking advantage of the praying mantis' centaurian shape to have a somewhat horse-like lower half with barbed arms like a jousting lance, to give it a knightly flare!
20. Aye-Aye
These funky little primates are most well known for their freakishly long and thin middle finger. Said middle finger is highly dexterous and they use it to dig into little hidy-holes in tree trunks and other things to pull out insect grubs to eat.
As a Pokemon: With those big ol' eyes it has, it's definitely an animal that'd work for a creepy, staring Ghost type. With its super long finger and an ethereal body, it'll poke through solid walls to touch and freak out people.
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