Diamond Pumpgill

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Diamond Pumpgill
(Adamasargus angustus)
Artwork of Diamond Pumpgill
Species is extant.
Creator Jlind11 Other
Taxonomy
Domain
Kingdom
Subkingdom
Phylum
Class
Order
Family
Genus
Species
Eukaryota
Binucleozoa
Symbiovermes
Pterigiophora
Caudabranchia
Aquapumpiformes
Aquapumpidae
Adamasargus
Adamasargus angustus
Week/Generation 24/151
Habitat Maineaic Temperate Coast, North Jujubee Temperate Ocean (Sunlight Zone), Jujubee Tropical Ocean (Sunlight Zone), South Jujubee Temperate Ocean (Sunlight Zone), Truteal Tropical Shallows, Xeno Temperate Shallows, Lemming Temperate Shallows, Darkov Temperate Coast, Chum Tropical Bay, Elerd Temperate Coast, Jaydoh Temperate Coast, Raq Temperate Coast, Jlindy Tropical Coast, Ninth Tropical Coast, BigL Tropical Coast, Dass Temperate Coast, Koopa Tropical Coast, Hydro Tropical Coast, Anguan Temperate Coast, Oz Temperate Coast, Clayren Tropical Coast, Wolfgang Tropical Coast, North LadyM Temperate Ocean (Sunlight Zone), LadyM Tropical Ocean (Sunlight Zone), South LadyM Temperate Ocean (Sunlight Zone), Soma Temperate Sea, Ramul Temperate Coast, King Tropical Coast, Clarke Temperate Coast
Size 20 cm Long
Primary Mobility Unknown
Support Unknown
Diet Omnivore (Gillrom, Ouchiiro, Colonial Filtersquid, Snatcherswarmer, Krillpedes, Snotflora, Marbleflora, Twinkorals, Larvaback)
Respiration Active (Pump-Gill)
Thermoregulation Ectotherm
Reproduction Sexual, Two Sexes, Eggs

The diamond pumpgill split from its ancestor when some ebony pump gilltails were swept out to the surrounding temperate waters. Finding it relatively devoid of competition, they doubled in size, developing into gregarious generalists feeding on all the smaller flora and fauna safe enough to eat. Their bodies are diamond shaped (hence the name) and are also thin (about 2 cm Wide). These traits combined with their sparkly speckled bodies mean that schools of hundreds appear as a disorienting swarm to predators. Their rear fins have fused into a single powerful fin, allowing threatened individuals to do 20 second hair-pinned bolts of 20 kph.

Individuals live for 3 years. As mentioned before they live in schools of at least 300, traveling amongst the tropical and temperate oceanic biomes in search of food. At the end of the colder months they will migrate in mass to the Chum Tropical Bay region or the Ovi/Solphimr pseudo-bay region to spawn; each female lays 30 6-mm eggs in the sand or underneath larger flora. Eggs take 2 weeks to hatch and the cm long young or "squirms" live in the tropic coasts for 6 months (or until they become half their adult size), feeding on small ground floras and faunas. After this period of maturation they leave to join a nearby school; if enough individuals leave a place at once and no established schools can be found they will form a new one.