This really doesn't seem to fit the spirit of the Menagerie to me, honestly. Permanently limiting yourself, permanently ruling creatures out of being "saved" or whatever—the Menagerie is about growth, and dealing with wild unpredictable gains. This effect really needs a "you may abolish this restriction for free at any time" provision, at the very least. Or perhaps instead, or in addition, simply say that authors can choose to exclude categories from the Menagerie when they start writing a story if they really don't like that category or it blatantly doesn't fit the world.
The distance that can be covered by laying out 700 creatures in a single-file line isn't particularly significant, as it's hard to see why you would want to do that. In terms of area, my crude calculation suggests that with the most efficient hexagonal circle covering, an American football field (130 by 360 feet) would require seven 10 meter diameter circles across the width and thirteen across the height to cover without gaps, for 91 total. Hence 700 of those creatures could protect a little over 7-and-a-half football fields worth of area. Pretty substantial.
Anyway, to the vote:
Mundane Animals:
[X] (0) Crustacean --> Mantis Shrimp
Reasoning on the eye seems solid.
Ark/Primeval:
[X] (100) Attack Drone
Can't find anything more useful in a quick skim through the choices.
Avatar:
[X] (100) Viper bat
These things look like they're less than 50 cm in length. Summoning a swarm of flying snakes with bat wings ought to be a hilarious weapon against ophidiophobic villains. Way more unique than another random mid-size predator.
D&D:
[X] (100) Animate Object
A huge object seems to have a max of 15 x 15 x 32 feet. Fun to animate!
Pokemon:
[X] (100) Unown (I shape, fighting-type hidden power)
How useful are six un-reproducible healing berries per day when we can already harvest lots of healing items through material extraction? Going for the Unown, the "I" shape seems the simplest and nicest-looking to me and as far as I can tell shape is completely cosmetic. A fighting-type hidden power is best because most enemies are going to be "normal" type and fighting moves are doubly effective against them.
Edit: corrected typo, football fields are 360 feet and not 160 feet long.
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