Beach Slitherworm
| Beach Slitherworm | ||
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| (Vermipython beachbum) | ||
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| 21/?, unknown cause | ||
| Information | ||
| Creator | Hydromancerx Other | |
| Week/Generation | 20/130 | |
| Habitat | Ninth Tropical Beach, Jlindy Tropical Beach | |
| Size | 160 cm Long | |
| Primary Mobility | Unknown | |
| Support | Unknown | |
| Diet | Carnivore (Centiworm, Swooperbean, Grasspade, Sea Capispine babies, Beach Quadacorn babies), Ovivore (Sea Capispine eggs), Scavenger | |
| Respiration | Unknown | |
| Thermoregulation | Ectotherm | |
| Reproduction | Sexual, Hard-Shelled Eggs, Three Sexes | |
| Taxonomy | ||
| Domain Kingdom Subkingdom Phylum Class Subclass Superorder Order Family Genus Species | Eukaryota Phoenoplastida Pansegmentocaudazoa Segmentocaudazoa Pluriptera Anopterigia Ophiobdelloi Colubrivermes Vermipythonidae Vermipython Vermipython beachbum | |
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The the beach slitherworm split from its ancestor, the slitherworm. It now lives in Ninth Tropical Beach and Jlindy Tropical Beach. Its white coloring help it hide in the white tropical sand. It is an ambush predator and will wait for food to come by. It will stick only its head out of the sand revealing its 3 eyes and "air gills". The "air-gills" are blue in color because they have blue copper blood like all anipedia species.
They use their body to fell vibration in the sand so they can also hunting their distant ancestor the centiworm. They are not above scavenging or eating the eggs of sea capispine either. Since they are cold-blooded they must regulate their heat by either sunning themselves at the surface or digging underground to cool off. They can also last for weeks without food. They are constantly growing and will frequently shed their exoskeletons.
When attacking prey they will bite it with their 4 jawed mouths and then use their bodies to constrict and crush it prey. They are not big enough to take down full grown sea capispine or beach quadacorn but they have been known to eat their babies. They eat their prey whole and if threatened will regurgitate up their meal in order to escape faster.
They make their own nests under the sand and will lay hard shelled eggs. They will mate in the spring where the Ninth Tropical Beach and Jlindy Tropical Beach meet. This massive mating migration is so they can find all 3 sexes of their species. The 3 sexes are male who gives the sperm, the female who gives the egg and the third sex who gives the hormone that allows the sperm into the egg. Thus both the male and the third sex have to mate with the female in order for fertilization to occur.
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