The word "creature" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe any living being, either real or imaginary. Example sentence: "The little girl was so intrigued by the strange creature she had discovered in the forest."
The nymph's extendable mouth parts, housed behind serrated jaws, are the stuff of a science-fiction nightmare, part of the inspiration for HR Giger's creature from the film Alien, a fragment from the palaeozoic era projected on to a dystopian future.
Then there is its American, dear-god-hide-it-in-the-attic sibling, a wretched creature offering a mere 34g of satisfaction.
As the dinosaur that leaps out of the water and devours a shark in the Jurassic World trailer, it's become notorious as the most polarising creature in the film.
I'd like to point out that your creature comforts mostly stem from fossil fuels – toiletries and cosmetics as well as clothes and transport.
Not in the way some proponents of anti-western conspiracy theories like to suggest (no, Isis is not a creature of the CIA), but by abandoning the Syrian revolutionaries and failing to provide them with the support that would have allowed them to change the balance of forces on the ground.
For a microsecond I saw this beatific, angelic creature and assumed it was my reflection.
"Most of you probably already know that transvestite creature Lady Gaga is about to release a music video," began one recent missive, purportedly circulated by Miley Cyrus fans, although perhaps created by a third fanbase wishing to discredit both Gaga and Cyrus in one fell swoop.
His drawings of this never-completed creature are eerily beautiful, and plant the image of it firmly in the imagination.
The continual, daily surprise was that Parker was a creature of her own wills, moods and curiosities.
But for all the celebrations, some people still detest our biggest carnivorous creature.
Three years later, in June 1975, a single camera captured what became known as the "Gargoyle shot" that appeared to show a large head with horny protrusions (see here) and another photo of what seemed to be the entire creature (here).
