Butcher Worm

From Sagan 4 Alpha Wiki
Revision as of 04:59, 23 February 2024 by Disgustedorite (talk | contribs) (→‎top: adding ALL respiration)
(diff) ← Older revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)
Jump to navigation Jump to search
Butcher Worm
(Mastagioceros carnivora)
Main image of Butcher Worm
Species is extinct.
19/126, Chitinbane
Information
CreatorKrakow Sam Other
Week/Generation7/47
HabitatIttiz-Nuke Rainforest, Nuke Temperate Forest, Ovi-Hydro Savanna
Size9 cm Long
Primary MobilityUnknown
SupportExoskeleton (Chitin)
DietCarrion and some fruit and rotting foliage (any dead animal, plent or plant matter)
RespirationPassive (Tracheae)
ThermoregulationEctotherm
ReproductionSexual,eggs, two sexes
Taxonomy
Domain
Kingdom
Subkingdom
Phylum
Class
Order
Family
Subfamily
Genus
Species
Eukaryota
Binucleozoa
Symbiovermes (info)
Thoracocephalia
Optidorsalia
Dakocerata
Mastagioceratidae
Mastagioceratinae
Mastagioceros
Mastagioceros carnivora
Ancestor:Descendants:

Antlered worms making forays into the savanna found themselves short of their preferred food: rotting vegetation. However, their keen senses soon brought them to the carcasses of plents, killed by saucebacks or by natural causes. Their jaws were ill-suited for shredding the tough plent flesh, but their antlers served to shred bits off any carcass they happened to crawl around in. The antlers subsequently evolved to hang lower to the ground and to have sharper barbs as well as split from 2 to 4 antlers. Their all-plent diet was eventually supplemented with the flesh of dead animals such as saucebacks. Now adapted to a different niche, the butcher worms spread back into the forests from which their ancestors had emerged.

Living Relatives (click to show/hide)

The living relatives display has been temporarily disabled due to a major bug. Information and updates will be provided on the Discord server.